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Sub. S. B. No. 96 As Reported by the House Education CommitteeAs Reported by the House Education Committee
130th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2013-2014 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Cafaro, Hite, Lehner, Eklund, Hughes, Obhof, Peterson, Sawyer, Schiavoni, Smith, Tavares, Turner, Uecker
Representative Fedor
A BILL
To amend sections 3301.0711, 3301.0712, 3302.02,
3302.03, 3302.035, 3313.534, 3313.603, 3313.612,
3313.672, 3313.814, 3314.06, 3317.034, 3319.227,
3319.261, 3365.04, 3365.05, and 3365.07 of the
Revised Code, and to amend Sections 263.20 and
263.320 of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General
Assembly, as subsequently amended, and Section 9
of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 130th General Assembly
to require one-half unit of world history in the
high school social studies curriculum, to revise
the law on state assessments and academic
performance reporting, and to make other changes
regarding primary and secondary education
programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 3301.0711, 3301.0712, 3302.02,
3302.03, 3302.035, 3313.534, 3313.603, 3313.612, 3313.672,
3313.814, 3314.06, 3317.034, 3319.227, 3319.261, 3365.04, 3365.05,
and 3365.07 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3301.0711. (A) The department of education shall:
(1) Annually furnish to, grade, and score all assessments
required by divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of
the Revised Code to be administered by city, local, exempted
village, and joint vocational school districts, except that each
district shall score any assessment administered pursuant to
division (B)(10) of this section. Each assessment so furnished
shall include the data verification code of the student to whom
the assessment will be administered, as assigned pursuant to
division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code. In
furnishing the practice versions of Ohio graduation tests
prescribed by division (D) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code, the department shall make the tests available on its web
site for reproduction by districts. In awarding contracts for
grading assessments, the department shall give preference to
Ohio-based entities employing Ohio residents.
(2) Adopt rules for the ethical use of assessments and
prescribing the manner in which the assessments prescribed by
section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall be administered to
students.
(B) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (J) of this
section, the board of education of each city, local, and exempted
village school district shall, in accordance with rules adopted
under division (A) of this section:
(1) Administer the English language arts assessments
prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code twice annually to all students in the third grade who
have not attained the score designated for that assessment under
division (A)(2)(c) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.
(2) Administer the mathematics assessment prescribed under
division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at
least once annually to all students in the third grade.
(3) Administer the assessments prescribed under division
(A)(1)(b) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once
annually to all students in the fourth grade.
(4) Administer the assessments prescribed under division
(A)(1)(c) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once
annually to all students in the fifth grade.
(5) Administer the assessments prescribed under division
(A)(1)(d) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once
annually to all students in the sixth grade.
(6) Administer the assessments prescribed under division
(A)(1)(e) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once
annually to all students in the seventh grade.
(7) Administer the assessments prescribed under division
(A)(1)(f) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once
annually to all students in the eighth grade.
(8) Except as provided in division (B)(9) of this section,
administer any assessment prescribed under division (B)(1) of
section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as follows:
(a) At least once annually to all tenth grade students and at
least twice annually to all students in eleventh or twelfth grade
who have not yet attained the score on that assessment designated
under that division;
(b) To any person who has successfully completed the
curriculum in any high school or the individualized education
program developed for the person by any high school pursuant to
section 3323.08 of the Revised Code but has not received a high
school diploma and who requests to take such assessment, at any
time such assessment is administered in the district.
(9) In lieu of the board of education of any city, local, or
exempted village school district in which the student is also
enrolled, the board of a joint vocational school district shall
administer any assessment prescribed under division (B)(1) of
section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least twice annually to
any student enrolled in the joint vocational school district who
has not yet attained the score on that assessment designated under
that division. A board of a joint vocational school district may
also administer such an assessment to any student described in
division (B)(8)(b) of this section.
(10) If the district has a three-year average graduation rate
of not more than seventy-five per cent, administer each assessment
prescribed by division (D) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code in September to all ninth grade students, beginning in the
school year that starts July 1, 2005 who entered ninth grade prior
to July 1, 2014.
Except as provided in section 3313.614 of the Revised Code
for administration of an assessment to a person who has fulfilled
the curriculum requirement for a high school diploma but has not
passed one or more of the required assessments, the assessments
prescribed under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code and the practice assessments prescribed under
division (D) of that section and required to be administered under
divisions (B)(8), (9), and (10) of this section shall not be
administered after July 1, 2015 the date specified in the rules
adopted by the state board of education under division (D)(1) of
section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code.
(11) Administer the assessments prescribed by division (B)(2)
of section 3301.0710 and section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code in
accordance with the timeline and plan for implementation of those
assessments prescribed by rule of the state board adopted under
division (D)(1) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code.
(C)(1)(a) In the case of a student receiving special
education services under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, the
individualized education program developed for the student under
that chapter shall specify the manner in which the student will
participate in the assessments administered under this section.
The individualized education program may excuse the student from
taking any particular assessment required to be administered under
this section if it instead specifies an alternate assessment
method approved by the department of education as conforming to
requirements of federal law for receipt of federal funds for
disadvantaged pupils. To the extent possible, the individualized
education program shall not excuse the student from taking an
assessment unless no reasonable accommodation can be made to
enable the student to take the assessment.
(b) Any alternate assessment approved by the department for a
student under this division shall produce measurable results
comparable to those produced by the assessment it replaces in
order to allow for the student's results to be included in the
data compiled for a school district or building under section
3302.03 of the Revised Code.
(c) Any student enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school who
has been identified, based on an evaluation conducted in
accordance with section 3323.03 of the Revised Code or section 504
of the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973," 87 Stat. 355, 29 U.S.C.A.
794, as amended, as a child with a disability shall be excused
from taking any particular assessment required to be administered
under this section if a plan developed for the student pursuant to
rules adopted by the state board excuses the student from taking
that assessment. In the case of any student so excused from taking
an assessment, the chartered nonpublic school shall not prohibit
the student from taking the assessment.
(2) A district board may, for medical reasons or other good
cause, excuse a student from taking an assessment administered
under this section on the date scheduled, but that assessment
shall be administered to the excused student not later than nine
days following the scheduled date. The district board shall
annually report the number of students who have not taken one or
more of the assessments required by this section to the state
board of education not later than the thirtieth day of June.
(3) As used in this division, "limited English proficient
student" has the same meaning as in 20 U.S.C. 7801.
No school district board shall excuse any limited English
proficient student from taking any particular assessment required
to be administered under this section, except that any limited
English proficient student who has been enrolled in United States
schools for less than one full school year shall not be required
to take any reading, writing, or English language arts assessment.
However, no board shall prohibit a limited English proficient
student who is not required to take an assessment under this
division from taking the assessment. A board may permit any
limited English proficient student to take an assessment required
to be administered under this section with appropriate
accommodations, as determined by the department. For each limited
English proficient student, each school district shall annually
assess that student's progress in learning English, in accordance
with procedures approved by the department.
The governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school may
excuse a limited English proficient student from taking any
assessment administered under this section. However, no governing
authority shall prohibit a limited English proficient student from
taking the assessment.
(D)(1) In the school year next succeeding the school year in
which the assessments prescribed by division (A)(1) or (B)(1) of
section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code or former division (A)(1),
(A)(2), or (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as it
existed prior to September 11, 2001, are administered to any
student, the board of education of any school district in which
the student is enrolled in that year shall provide to the student
intervention services commensurate with the student's performance,
including any intensive intervention required under section
3313.608 of the Revised Code, in any skill in which the student
failed to demonstrate at least a score at the proficient level on
the assessment.
(2) Following any administration of the assessments
prescribed by division (D) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code to ninth grade students, each school district that has a
three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five
per cent shall determine for each high school in the district
whether the school shall be required to provide intervention
services to any students who took the assessments. In determining
which high schools shall provide intervention services based on
the resources available, the district shall consider each school's
graduation rate and scores on the practice assessments. The
district also shall consider the scores received by ninth grade
students on the English language arts and mathematics assessments
prescribed under division (A)(1)(f) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code in the eighth grade in determining which high schools
shall provide intervention services.
Each high school selected to provide intervention services
under this division shall provide intervention services to any
student whose results indicate that the student is failing to make
satisfactory progress toward being able to attain scores at the
proficient level on the Ohio graduation tests. Intervention
services shall be provided in any skill in which a student
demonstrates unsatisfactory progress and shall be commensurate
with the student's performance. Schools shall provide the
intervention services prior to the end of the school year, during
the summer following the ninth grade, in the next succeeding
school year, or at any combination of those times.
(E) Except as provided in section 3313.608 of the Revised
Code and division (M) of this section, no school district board of
education shall utilize any student's failure to attain a
specified score on an assessment administered under this section
as a factor in any decision to deny the student promotion to a
higher grade level. However, a district board may choose not to
promote to the next grade level any student who does not take an
assessment administered under this section or make up an
assessment as provided by division (C)(2) of this section and who
is not exempt from the requirement to take the assessment under
division (C)(3) of this section.
(F) No person shall be charged a fee for taking any
assessment administered under this section.
(G)(1) Each school district board shall designate one
location for the collection of assessments administered in the
spring under division (B)(1) of this section and those
administered under divisions (B)(2) to (7) of this section. Each
district board shall submit the assessments to the entity with
which the department contracts for the scoring of the assessments
as follows:
(a) If the district's total enrollment in grades kindergarten
through twelve during the first full school week of October was
less than two thousand five hundred, not later than the Friday
after all of the assessments have been administered;
(b) If the district's total enrollment in grades kindergarten
through twelve during the first full school week of October was
two thousand five hundred or more, but less than seven thousand,
not later than the Monday after all of the assessments have been
administered;
(c) If the district's total enrollment in grades kindergarten
through twelve during the first full school week of October was
seven thousand or more, not later than the Tuesday after all of
the assessments have been administered.
However, any assessment that a student takes during the
make-up period described in division (C)(2) of this section shall
be submitted not later than the Friday following the day the
student takes the assessment.
(2) The department or an entity with which the department
contracts for the scoring of the assessment shall send to each
school district board a list of the individual scores of all
persons taking an assessment prescribed by division (A)(1) or
(B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code within sixty days
after its administration, but in no case shall the scores be
returned later than the fifteenth day of June following the
administration. For assessments administered under this section by
a joint vocational school district, the department or entity shall
also send to each city, local, or exempted village school district
a list of the individual scores of any students of such city,
local, or exempted village school district who are attending
school in the joint vocational school district.
(H) Individual scores on any assessments administered under
this section shall be released by a district board only in
accordance with section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the rules
adopted under division (A) of this section. No district board or
its employees shall utilize individual or aggregate results in any
manner that conflicts with rules for the ethical use of
assessments adopted pursuant to division (A) of this section.
(I) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, the
department or an entity with which the department contracts for
the scoring of the assessment shall not release any individual
scores on any assessment administered under this section. The
state board of education shall adopt rules to ensure the
protection of student confidentiality at all times. The rules may
require the use of the data verification codes assigned to
students pursuant to division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the
Revised Code to protect the confidentiality of student scores.
(J) Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.52 of the
Revised Code, this section does not apply to the board of
education of any cooperative education school district except as
provided under rules adopted pursuant to this division.
(1) In accordance with rules that the state board of
education shall adopt, the board of education of any city,
exempted village, or local school district with territory in a
cooperative education school district established pursuant to
divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code may
enter into an agreement with the board of education of the
cooperative education school district for administering any
assessment prescribed under this section to students of the city,
exempted village, or local school district who are attending
school in the cooperative education school district.
(2) In accordance with rules that the state board of
education shall adopt, the board of education of any city,
exempted village, or local school district with territory in a
cooperative education school district established pursuant to
section 3311.521 of the Revised Code shall enter into an agreement
with the cooperative district that provides for the administration
of any assessment prescribed under this section to both of the
following:
(a) Students who are attending school in the cooperative
district and who, if the cooperative district were not
established, would be entitled to attend school in the city,
local, or exempted village school district pursuant to section
3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code;
(b) Persons described in division (B)(8)(b) of this section.
Any assessment of students pursuant to such an agreement
shall be in lieu of any assessment of such students or persons
pursuant to this section.
(K)(1)(a) Except as otherwise provided in division (K)(1)(a)
or (K)(1)(c) of this section, each chartered nonpublic school for
which at least sixty-five per cent of its total enrollment is made
up of students who are participating in state scholarship programs
shall administer the elementary assessments prescribed by division
(A) of section 3301.0710 and division (B)(2) of section 3301.0712
of the Revised Code. In accordance with procedures and deadlines
prescribed by the department, the parent or guardian of a student
enrolled in the school who is not participating in a state
scholarship program may submit notice to the chief administrative
officer of the school that the parent or guardian does not wish to
have the student take the elementary assessments prescribed for
the student's grade level under division (A) of section 3301.0710
or division (B)(2) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code. If a
parent or guardian submits an opt-out notice, the school shall not
administer the assessments to that student. This option does not
apply to any assessment required for a high school diploma under
section 3313.612 of the Revised Code.
(b) If(i) Except as provided in division (K)(1)(b)(ii) of
this section, if a chartered nonpublic school is educating
students in grades nine through twelve, it shall administer the
assessments prescribed by divisions division (B)(1) and (2) of
section 3301.0710 and division (B) of section 3301.0712 of the
Revised Code as a condition of compliance with section 3313.612 of
the Revised Code.
(ii) A chartered nonpublic school that exercises the
exemption authorized by division (D) of section 3313.612 of the
Revised Code and that is not subject to division (K)(1)(a) of this
section shall not be required to administer the end-of-course
examinations prescribed by division (B)(2) of section 3301.0712 of
the Revised Code, but that school shall administer the college and
career readiness assessment prescribed by division (B)(1) of that
section. The exemption is not available to a school that is
subject to division (K)(1)(a) of this section and does not apply
to any student attending a chartered nonpublic school under a
state scholarship program.
(c) A chartered nonpublic school may submit to the
superintendent of public instruction a request for a waiver from
administering the elementary assessments prescribed by division
(A) of section 3301.0710 and division (B)(2) of section 3301.0712
of the Revised Code. The state superintendent shall approve or
disapprove a request for a waiver submitted under division
(K)(1)(c) of this section. No waiver shall be approved for any
school year prior to the 2015-2016 school year.
To be eligible to submit a request for a waiver, a chartered
nonpublic school shall meet the following conditions:
(i) At least ninety-five per cent of the students enrolled in
the school are children with disabilities, as defined under
section 3323.01 of the Revised Code, or have received a diagnosis
by a school district or from a physician, including a
neuropsychiatrist or psychiatrist, or a psychologist who is
authorized to practice in this or another state as having a
condition that impairs academic performance, such as dyslexia,
dyscalculia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or
Asperger's syndrome.
(ii) The school has solely served a student population
described in division (K)(1)(c)(i) of this section for at least
ten years.
(iii) The school provides to the department at least five
years of records of internal testing conducted by the school that
affords the department data required for accountability purposes,
including diagnostic assessments and nationally standardized
norm-referenced achievement assessments that measure reading and
math skills.
(d) Any chartered nonpublic school that is not subject to
division (K)(1)(a) of this section may participate in the
assessment program by administering any of the assessments
prescribed by division (A) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code. The chief administrator of the school shall specify which
assessments the school will administer. Such specification shall
be made in writing to the superintendent of public instruction
prior to the first day of August of any school year in which
assessments are administered and shall include a pledge that the
nonpublic school will administer the specified assessments in the
same manner as public schools are required to do under this
section and rules adopted by the department.
(2) The department of education shall furnish the assessments
prescribed by section 3301.0710 or 3301.0712 of the Revised Code
to each chartered nonpublic school that is subject to in
accordance with division (K)(1)(a) of this section or participates
under division (K)(1), (b), or (d) of this section.
(L)(1) The superintendent of the state school for the blind
and the superintendent of the state school for the deaf shall
administer the assessments described by sections 3301.0710 and
3301.0712 of the Revised Code. Each superintendent shall
administer the assessments in the same manner as district boards
are required to do under this section and rules adopted by the
department of education and in conformity with division (C)(1)(a)
of this section.
(2) The department of education shall furnish the assessments
described by sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0712 of the Revised Code
to each superintendent.
(M) Notwithstanding division (E) of this section, a school
district may use a student's failure to attain a score in at least
the proficient range on the mathematics assessment described by
division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code or on
an assessment described by division (A)(1)(b), (c), (d), (e), or
(f) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as a factor in
retaining that student in the current grade level.
(N)(1) In the manner specified in divisions (N)(3), (4), and
(6) of this section, the assessments required by division (A)(1)
of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall become public
records pursuant to section 149.43 of the Revised Code on the
thirty-first day of July following the school year that the
assessments were administered.
(2) The department may field test proposed questions with
samples of students to determine the validity, reliability, or
appropriateness of questions for possible inclusion in a future
year's assessment. The department also may use anchor questions on
assessments to ensure that different versions of the same
assessment are of comparable difficulty.
Field test questions and anchor questions shall not be
considered in computing scores for individual students. Field test
questions and anchor questions may be included as part of the
administration of any assessment required by division (A)(1) or
(B) of section 3301.0710 and division (B) of section 3301.0712 of
the Revised Code.
(3) Any field test question or anchor question administered
under division (N)(2) of this section shall not be a public
record. Such field test questions and anchor questions shall be
redacted from any assessments which are released as a public
record pursuant to division (N)(1) of this section.
(4) This division applies to the assessments prescribed by
division (A) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.
(a) The first administration of each assessment, as specified
in former section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code, shall be a public
record.
(b) For subsequent administrations of each assessment prior
to the 2011-2012 school year, not less than forty per cent of the
questions on the assessment that are used to compute a student's
score shall be a public record. The department shall determine
which questions will be needed for reuse on a future assessment
and those questions shall not be public records and shall be
redacted from the assessment prior to its release as a public
record. However, for each redacted question, the department shall
inform each city, local, and exempted village school district of
the statewide academic standard adopted by the state board of
education under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code and the
corresponding benchmark to which the question relates. The
preceding sentence does not apply to field test questions that are
redacted under division (N)(3) of this section.
(c) The administrations of each assessment in the 2011-2012,
2012-2013, and 2013-2014 school years shall not be a public
record.
(5) Each assessment prescribed by division (B)(1) of section
3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall not be a public record.
(6) Beginning with the spring administration for the
2014-2015 school year, questions on the assessments prescribed
under division (A) of section 3301.0710 and division (B)(2) of
section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code and the corresponding
preferred answers that are used to compute a student's score shall
become a public record as follows:
(a) Forty per cent of the questions and preferred answers on
the assessments on the thirty-first day of July following the
administration of the assessment;
(b) Twenty per cent of the questions and preferred answers on
the assessment on the thirty-first day of July one year after the
administration of the assessment;
(c) The remaining forty per cent of the questions and
preferred answers on the assessment on the thirty-first day of
July two years after the administration of the assessment.
The entire content of an assessment shall become a public
record within three years of its administration.
The department shall make the questions that become a public
record under this division readily accessible to the public on the
department's web site. Questions on the spring administration of
each assessment shall be released on an annual basis, in
accordance with this division.
(O) As used in this section:
(1) "Three-year average" means the average of the most recent
consecutive three school years of data.
(2) "Dropout" means a student who withdraws from school
before completing course requirements for graduation and who is
not enrolled in an education program approved by the state board
of education or an education program outside the state. "Dropout"
does not include a student who has departed the country.
(3) "Graduation rate" means the ratio of students receiving a
diploma to the number of students who entered ninth grade four
years earlier. Students who transfer into the district are added
to the calculation. Students who transfer out of the district for
reasons other than dropout are subtracted from the calculation. If
a student who was a dropout in any previous year returns to the
same school district, that student shall be entered into the
calculation as if the student had entered ninth grade four years
before the graduation year of the graduating class that the
student joins.
(4) "State scholarship programs" means the educational choice
scholarship pilot program established under sections 3310.01 to
3310.17 of the Revised Code, the autism scholarship program
established under section 3310.41 of the Revised Code, the Jon
Peterson special needs scholarship program established under
sections 3310.51 to 3310.64 of the Revised Code, and the pilot
project scholarship program established under sections 3313.974 to
3313.979 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3301.0712. (A) The state board of education, the
superintendent of public instruction, and the chancellor of the
Ohio board of regents shall develop a system of college and work
ready assessments as described in division (B) of this section to
assess whether each student upon graduating from high school is
ready to enter college or the workforce. Beginning with students
who enter the ninth grade for the first time on or after July 1,
2014, the system shall replace the Ohio graduation tests
prescribed in division (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code as a measure of student academic performance and one
determinant of eligibility for a high school diploma in the manner
prescribed by rule of the state board adopted under division (D)
of this section.
(B) The college and work ready assessment system shall
consist of the following:
(1) A nationally standardized assessment that measures
college and career readiness, and is used for college admission,
and includes components in English, mathematics, science, and
social studies. The assessment shall be selected jointly by the
state superintendent and the chancellor. The assessment prescribed
under division (B)(1) of this section shall be administered to all
eleventh-grade students.
(2) Seven end-of-course examinations, one in each of the
areas of English language arts I, English language arts II,
physical science or biology, Algebra I, geometry, American
history, and American government. The end-of-course examinations
shall be selected jointly by the state superintendent and the
chancellor in consultation with faculty in the appropriate subject
areas at institutions of higher education of the university system
of Ohio. Advanced placement examinations, and international
baccalaureate examinations, and dual enrollment or advanced
standing program examinations, as prescribed under section
3313.6013 of the Revised Code, in the areas of physical science or
biology, American history, and American government may be used as
end-of-course examinations in accordance with division
(B)(4)(a)(i) of this section. Final course grades for courses
taken under any other advanced standing program, as prescribed
under section 3313.6013 of the Revised Code, in the areas of
physical science or biology, American history, and American
government may be used in lieu of end-of-course examinations in
accordance with division (B)(4)(a)(ii) of this section.
(3)(a) Not later than July 1, 2013, each school district
board of education shall adopt interim end-of-course examinations
that comply with the requirements of divisions (B)(3)(b)(i) and
(ii) of this section to assess mastery of American history and
American government standards adopted under division (A)(1)(b) of
section 3301.079 of the Revised Code and the topics required under
division (M) of section 3313.603 of the Revised Code. Each high
school of the district shall use the interim examinations until
the state superintendent and chancellor select end-of-course
examinations in American history and American government under
division (B)(2) of this section.
(b) Not later than July 1, 2014, the state superintendent and
the chancellor shall select the end-of-course examinations in
American history and American government.
(i) The end-of-course examinations in American history and
American government shall require demonstration of mastery of the
American history and American government content for social
studies standards adopted under division (A)(1)(b) of section
3301.079 of the Revised Code and the topics required under
division (M) of section 3313.603 of the Revised Code.
(ii) At least twenty per cent of the end-of-course
examination in American government shall address the topics on
American history and American government described in division (M)
of section 3313.603 of the Revised Code.
(4)(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
section, beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, if both of the
following shall apply:
(i) If a student is enrolled in an appropriate advanced
placement or international baccalaureate course or is enrolled
under any other dual enrollment or advanced standing program, that
student shall take the advanced placement or international
baccalaureate examination or applicable examination under dual
enrollment or advanced standing in lieu of the physical science or
biology, American history, or American government end-of-course
examinations prescribed under division (B)(2) of this section. The
state board shall specify the score levels for each advanced
placement examination, and international baccalaureate
examination, and examination required under other dual enrollment
or advanced standing programs for purposes of calculating the
minimum cumulative performance score that demonstrates the level
of academic achievement necessary to earn a high school diploma.
(ii) If a student is enrolled in an appropriate course under
any other advanced standing program, as described in section
3313.6013 of the Revised Code, that student shall not be required
to take the physical science or biology, American history, or
American government end-of-course examination, whichever is
applicable, prescribed under division (B)(2) of this section.
Instead, that student's final course grade shall be used in lieu
of the applicable end-of-course examination prescribed under that
section. The state superintendent and the chancellor jointly shall
adopt guidelines for purposes of calculating the minimum final
course grade that demonstrates the level of academic achievement
necessary to earn a high school diploma.
Division (B)(4)(a)(ii) of this section shall apply only to
courses for which students receive transcripted credit, as defined
in division (U) of section 3365.01 of the Revised Code. It shall
not apply to remedial or developmental courses.
(b) No student shall take a substitute examination or
examination prescribed under division (B)(4)(a) of this section in
place of the end-of-course examinations in English language arts
I, English language arts II, Algebra I, or geometry prescribed
under division (B)(2) of this section.
(c) The state board shall consider additional assessments
that may be used, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, as
substitute examinations in lieu of the end-of-course examinations
prescribed under division (B)(2) of this section.
(5)(a) The state board shall determine do all of the
following:
(a) Determine and designate at least five ranges of scores on
each of the end-of-course examinations prescribed under division
(B)(2) of this section, and substitute examinations prescribed
under division (B)(4) of this section. Each range of scores shall
be considered to demonstrate a level of achievement so that any
student attaining a score within such range has achieved one of
the following:
(i) An advanced level of skill;
(ii) An accelerated level of skill;
(iii) A proficient level of skill;
(iv) A basic level of skill;
(v) A limited level of skill.
(b) Determine a method by which to calculate a cumulative
performance score based on the results of a student's
end-of-course examinations or substitute examinations;
(c) Determine the minimum cumulative performance score that
demonstrates the level of academic achievement necessary to earn a
high school diploma;
(d) Develop a table of corresponding score equivalents for
the end-of-course examinations and substitute examinations in
order to calculate student performance consistently across the
different examinations. A score of two on an advanced placement
examination shall be considered equivalent to a proficient level
of skill as specified under division (B)(5)(a)(iii) of this
section. A score of three on an advanced placement examinations
shall be considered equivalent to an accelerated level of skill as
specified under division (B)(5)(a)(ii) of this section.
(6) Any student who received high school credit prior to July
1, 2014, for a course for which an end-of-course examination is
prescribed by division (B)(2) of this section shall not be
required to take that end-of-course examination. Receipt of credit
for that course shall satisfy the requirement to take the
end-of-course examination.
(7)(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
section, the state board may replace the algebra I end-of-course
examination prescribed under division (B)(2) of this section with
an algebra II end-of-course examination, beginning with the
2016-2017 school year for students who enter ninth grade on or
after July 1, 2016.
(b) If the state board replaces the algebra I end-of-course
examination with an algebra II end-of-course examination as
authorized under division (B)(7)(a) of this section, a both of the
following shall apply:
(i) A student who is enrolled in an advanced placement or
international baccalaureate course in algebra II or is enrolled
under any other dual enrollment or advanced standing program in
algebra II shall take the advanced placement or international
baccalaureate examination or applicable examination under dual
enrollment or advanced standing in lieu of the algebra II
end-of-course examination.
(ii) A student who is enrolled in an algebra II course under
any other advanced standing program, as described in section
3313.6013 of the Revised Code, shall not be required to take the
algebra II end-of-course examination, so long as the course is not
remedial or developmental and the student receives transcripted
credit, as defined in division (U) of section 3365.01 of the
Revised Code, for the course. Instead, that student's final course
grade shall be used in lieu of the examination.
(c) If a school district or school utilizes an integrated
approach to mathematics instruction, the district or school may do
either or both of the following:
(i) Administer an integrated mathematics I end-of-course
examination in lieu of the prescribed algebra I end-of-course
examination;
(ii) Administer an integrated mathematics II end-of-course
examination in lieu of the prescribed geometry end-of-course
examination.
(8)(a) Until July 1, 2016, the department of education shall
make available end-of-course examinations in both physical science
and biology.
(b) For any school year that begins on or after July 1, 2016,
the state board may choose to provide one or both of the
end-of-course examinations in physical science and biology.
(9) Neither the state board nor the department of education
shall develop or administer an end-of-course examination in the
area of world history.
(C) The state board shall convene a group of national
experts, state experts, and local practitioners to provide advice,
guidance, and recommendations for the alignment of standards and
model curricula to the assessments and in the design of the
end-of-course examinations prescribed by this section.
(D) Upon completion of the development of the assessment
system, the state board shall adopt rules prescribing all of the
following:
(1) A timeline and plan for implementation of the assessment
system, including a phased implementation if the state board
determines such a phase-in is warranted;
(2) The date after which a person shall meet the requirements
of the entire assessment system as a prerequisite for a diploma of
adult education under section 3313.611 of the Revised Code;
(3) Whether and the extent to which a person may be excused
from an American history end-of-course examination and an American
government end-of-course examination under division (H) of section
3313.61 and division (B)(3) of section 3313.612 of the Revised
Code;
(4) The date after which a person who has fulfilled the
curriculum requirement for a diploma but has not passed one or
more of the required assessments at the time the person fulfilled
the curriculum requirement shall meet the requirements of the
entire assessment system as a prerequisite for a high school
diploma under division (B) of section 3313.614 of the Revised
Code;
(5) The extent to which the assessment system applies to
students enrolled in a dropout recovery and prevention program for
purposes of division (F) of section 3313.603 and section 3314.36
of the Revised Code.
(E) Not later than forty-five days prior to the state board's
adoption of a resolution directing the department of education to
file the rules prescribed by division (D) of this section in final
form under section 119.04 of the Revised Code, the superintendent
of public instruction shall present the assessment system
developed under this section to the respective committees of the
house of representatives and senate that consider education
legislation.
(F)(1) Any person enrolled in a nonchartered nonpublic school
or any person who has been excused from attendance at school for
the purpose of home instruction under section 3321.04 of the
Revised Code may choose to participate in the system of
assessments administered under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this
section. However, no such person shall be required to participate
in the system of assessments.
(2) The department shall adopt rules for the administration
and scoring of any assessments under division (F)(1) of this
section.
(G) Not later than December 31, 2014, the state board shall
select at least one nationally recognized job skills assessment.
Each school district shall administer that assessment to those
students who opt to take it. The state shall reimburse a school
district for the costs of administering that assessment. The state
board shall establish the minimum score a student must attain on
the job skills assessment in order to demonstrate a student's
workforce readiness and employability. The administration of the
job skills assessment to a student under this division shall not
exempt a school district from administering the assessments
prescribed in division (B) of this section to that student.
Sec. 3302.02. Not later than one year after the adoption of
rules under division (D) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code
and at least every sixth year thereafter, upon recommendations of
the superintendent of public instruction, the state board of
education shall establish a set of performance indicators that
considered as a unit will be used as one of the performance
categories for the report cards required by section 3302.03 of the
Revised Code. In establishing these indicators, the superintendent
shall consider inclusion of student performance on assessments
prescribed under section 3301.0710 or 3301.0712 of the Revised
Code, rates of student improvement on such assessments, the
breadth of coursework available within the district, and other
indicators of student success.
Beginning with the report card for the 2014-2015 school year,
the performance indicators shall include an indicator that
reflects the level of services provided to, and the performance
of, students identified as gifted under Chapter 3324. of the
Revised Code. The indicator shall include the performance of
students identified as gifted on state assessments and value-added
growth measure disaggregated for students identified as gifted.
For the 2013-2014 school year, except as otherwise provided
in this section, for any indicator based on the percentage of
students attaining a proficient score on the assessments
prescribed by divisions (A) and (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code, a school district or building shall be considered to
have met the indicator if at least eighty per cent of the tested
students attain a score of proficient or higher on the assessment.
A school district or building shall be considered to have met the
indicator for the assessments prescribed by division (B)(1) of
section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code and only as administered to
eleventh grade students, if at least eighty-five per cent of the
tested students attain a score of proficient or higher on the
assessment. Not later than July 1, 2014, the
The state board may shall adopt rules, under Chapter 119. of
the Revised Code, to establish
different proficiency percentages
to meet each indicator that is based on a state assessment,
prescribed under section 3301.0710 or 3301.0712 of the Revised
Code, for the 2014-2015 school year and thereafter by the
following dates:
(A) Not later than December 1, 2015, for the 2014-2015 school
year;
(B) Not later than July 1, 2016, for the 2015-2016 school
year;
(C) Not later than July 1, 2017, for the 2016-2017 school
year, and for each school year thereafter.
The proficiency percentage shall not be less than sixty per
cent for the 2014-2015, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017 school years. The
proficiency percentage shall not be less than seventy-five per
cent for the 2017-2018 school year and each school year
thereafter.
The superintendent shall not establish any performance
indicator for passage of the third or fourth grade English
language arts assessment that is solely based on the assessment
given in the fall for the purpose of determining whether students
have met the reading guarantee provisions of section 3313.608 of
the Revised Code.
Sec. 3302.03. Annually, not later than the fifteenth day of
September or the preceding Friday when that day falls on a
Saturday or Sunday, the department of education shall assign a
letter grade for overall academic performance and for each
separate performance measure for each school district, and each
school building in a district, in accordance with this section.
The state board shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the
Revised Code to establish performance criteria for each letter
grade and prescribe a method by which the department assigns each
letter grade. For a school building to which any of the
performance measures do not apply, due to grade levels served by
the building, the state board shall designate the performance
measures that are applicable to the building and that must be
calculated separately and used to calculate the building's overall
grade. The department shall issue annual report cards reflecting
the performance of each school district, each building within each
district, and for the state as a whole using the performance
measures and letter grade system described in this section. The
department shall include on the report card for each district and
each building within each district the most recent two-year trend
data in student achievement for each subject and each grade.
(A)(1) For the 2012-2013 school year, the department shall
issue grades as described in division (E) of this section for each
of the following performance measures:
(a) Annual measurable objectives;
(b) Performance index score for a school district or
building. Grades shall be awarded as a percentage of the total
possible points on the performance index system as adopted by the
state board. In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades
under division (A)(1)(b) of this section, the state board of
education shall designate ninety per cent or higher for an "A," at
least seventy per cent but not more than eighty per cent for a
"C," and less than fifty per cent for an "F."
(c) The extent to which the school district or building meets
each of the applicable performance indicators established by the
state board under section 3302.02 of the Revised Code and the
percentage of applicable performance indicators that have been
achieved. In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades under
division (A)(1)(c) of this section, the state board shall
designate ninety per cent or higher for an "A."
(d) The four- and five-year adjusted cohort graduation rates.
In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades under
division (A)(1)(d), (B)(1)(d), or (C)(1)(d) of this section, the
department shall designate a four-year adjusted cohort graduation
rate of ninety-three per cent or higher for an "A" and a five-year
cohort graduation rate of ninety-five per cent or higher for an
"A."
(e) The overall score under the value-added progress
dimension of a school district or building, for which the
department shall use up to three years of value-added data as
available. The letter grade assigned for this growth measure shall
be as follows:
(i) A score that is at least two standard errors of measure
above the mean score shall be designated as an "A."
(ii) A score that is at least one standard error of measure
but less than two standard errors of measure above the mean score
shall be designated as a "B."
(iii) A score that is less than one standard error of measure
above the mean score but greater than or equal to one standard
error of measure below the mean score shall be designated as a
"C."
(iv) A score that is not greater than one standard error of
measure below the mean score but is greater than or equal to two
standard errors of measure below the mean score shall be
designated as a "D."
(v) A score that is not greater than two standard errors of
measure below the mean score shall be designated as an "F."
Whenever the value-added progress dimension is used as a
graded performance measure, whether as an overall measure or as a
measure of separate subgroups, the grades for the measure shall be
calculated in the same manner as prescribed in division (A)(1)(e)
of this section.
(f) The value-added progress dimension score for a school
district or building disaggregated for each of the following
subgroups: students identified as gifted, students with
disabilities, and students whose performance places them in the
lowest quintile for achievement on a statewide basis. Each
subgroup shall be a separate graded measure.
(2) Not later than April 30, 2013, the state board of
education shall adopt a resolution describing the performance
measures, benchmarks, and grading system for the 2012-2013 school
year and, not later than June 30, 2013, shall adopt rules in
accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that prescribe
the methods by which the performance measures under division
(A)(1) of this section shall be assessed and assigned a letter
grade, including performance benchmarks for each letter grade.
At least forty-five days prior to the state board's adoption
of rules to prescribe the methods by which the performance
measures under division (A)(1) of this section shall be assessed
and assigned a letter grade, the department shall conduct a public
presentation before the standing committees of the house of
representatives and the senate that consider education legislation
describing such methods, including performance benchmarks.
(3) There shall not be an overall letter grade for a school
district or building for the 2012-2013 school year.
(B)(1) For the 2013-2014 school year, the department shall
issue grades as described in division (E) of this section for each
of the following performance measures:
(a) Annual measurable objectives;
(b) Performance index score for a school district or
building. Grades shall be awarded as a percentage of the total
possible points on the performance index system as created by the
department. In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades
under division (B)(1)(b) of this section, the state board shall
designate ninety per cent or higher for an "A," at least seventy
per cent but not more than eighty per cent for a "C," and less
than fifty per cent for an "F."
(c) The extent to which the school district or building meets
each of the applicable performance indicators established by the
state board under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code and the
percentage of applicable performance indicators that have been
achieved. In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades under
division (B)(1)(c) of this section, the state board shall
designate ninety per cent or higher for an "A."
(d) The four- and five-year adjusted cohort graduation rates;
(e) The overall score under the value-added progress
dimension of a school district or building, for which the
department shall use up to three years of value-added data as
available.
(f) The value-added progress dimension score for a school
district or building disaggregated for each of the following
subgroups: students identified as gifted in superior cognitive
ability and specific academic ability fields under Chapter 3324.
of the Revised Code, students with disabilities, and students
whose performance places them in the lowest quintile for
achievement on a statewide basis. Each subgroup shall be a
separate graded measure.
(g) Whether a school district or building is making progress
in improving literacy in grades kindergarten through three, as
determined using a method prescribed by the state board. The state
board shall adopt rules to prescribe benchmarks and standards for
assigning grades to districts and buildings for purposes of
division (B)(1)(g) of this section. In adopting benchmarks for
assigning letter grades under divisions (B)(1)(g) and (C)(1)(g) of
this section, the state board shall determine progress made based
on the reduction in the total percentage of students scoring below
grade level, or below proficient, compared from year to year on
the reading and writing diagnostic assessments administered under
section 3301.0715 of the Revised Code and the third grade English
language arts assessment under section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code, as applicable. The state board shall designate for a "C"
grade a value that is not lower than the statewide average value
for this measure. No grade shall be issued under divisions
(B)(1)(g) and (C)(1)(g) of this section for a district or building
in which less than five per cent of students have scored below
grade level on the diagnostic assessment administered to students
in kindergarten under division (B)(1) of section 3313.608 of the
Revised Code.
(h) For a high mobility school district or building, an
additional value-added progress dimension score. For this measure,
the department shall use value-added data from the most recent
school year available and shall use assessment scores for only
those students to whom the district or building has administered
the assessments prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code for each of the two most recent consecutive school years.
As used in this division, "high mobility school district or
building" means a school district or building where at least
twenty-five per cent of its total enrollment is made up of
students who have attended that school district or building for
less than one year.
(2) In addition to the graded measures in division (B)(1) of
this section, the department shall include on a school district's
or building's report card all of the following without an assigned
letter grade:
(a) The percentage of students enrolled in a district or
building participating in advanced placement classes and the
percentage of those students who received a score of three or
better on advanced placement examinations;
(b) The number of a district's or building's students who
have earned at least three college credits through dual enrollment
or advanced standing programs, such as the post-secondary
enrollment options program under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code
and state-approved career-technical courses offered through dual
enrollment or statewide articulation, that appear on a student's
transcript or other official document, either of which is issued
by the institution of higher education from which the student
earned the college credit. The credits earned that are reported
under divisions (B)(2)(b) and (C)(2)(c) of this section shall not
include any that are remedial or developmental and shall include
those that count toward the curriculum requirements established
for completion of a degree.
(c) The percentage of students enrolled in a district or
building who have taken a national standardized test used for
college admission determinations and the percentage of those
students who are determined to be remediation-free in accordance
with standards adopted under division (F) of section 3345.061 of
the Revised Code;
(d) The percentage of the district's or the building's
students who receive industry-recognized credentials. The state
board shall adopt criteria for acceptable industry-recognized
credentials.
(e) The percentage of students enrolled in a district or
building who are participating in an international baccalaureate
program and the percentage of those students who receive a score
of four or better on the international baccalaureate examinations.
(f) The percentage of the district's or building's students
who receive an honors diploma under division (B) of section
3313.61 of the Revised Code.
(3) Not later than December 31, 2013, the state board shall
adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code
that prescribe the methods by which the performance measures under
divisions (B)(1)(f) and (B)(1)(g) of this section will be assessed
and assigned a letter grade, including performance benchmarks for
each grade.
At least forty-five days prior to the state board's adoption
of rules to prescribe the methods by which the performance
measures under division (B)(1) of this section shall be assessed
and assigned a letter grade, the department shall conduct a public
presentation before the standing committees of the house of
representatives and the senate that consider education legislation
describing such methods, including performance benchmarks.
(4) There shall not be an overall letter grade for a school
district or building for the 2013-2014 school year.
(C)(1) For the 2014-2015 school year and each school year
thereafter, the department shall issue grades as described in
division (E) of this section for each of the performance measures
prescribed in division (C)(1) of this section and an overall
letter grade based on an aggregate of those measures, except for
the performance measure set forth in division (C)(1)(h) of this
section. The graded measures are as follows:
(a) Annual measurable objectives;
(b) Performance index score for a school district or
building. Grades shall be awarded as a percentage of the total
possible points on the performance index system as created by the
department. In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades
under division (C)(1)(b) of this section, the state board shall
designate ninety per cent or higher for an "A," at least seventy
per cent but not more than eighty per cent for a "C," and less
than fifty per cent for an "F."
(c) The extent to which the school district or building meets
each of the applicable performance indicators established by the
state board under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code and the
percentage of applicable performance indicators that have been
achieved. In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades under
division (C)(1)(c) of this section, the state board shall
designate ninety per cent or higher for an "A."
(d) The four- and five-year adjusted cohort graduation rates;
(e) The overall score under the value-added progress
dimension, or another measure of student academic progress if
adopted by the state board, of a school district or building, for
which the department shall use up to three years of value-added
data as available.
In adopting benchmarks for assigning letter grades for
overall score on value-added progress dimension under division
(C)(1)(e) of this section, the state board shall prohibit the
assigning of a grade of "A" for that measure unless the district's
or building's grade assigned for value-added progress dimension
for all subgroups under division (C)(1)(f) of this section is a
"B" or higher.
For the metric prescribed by division (C)(1)(e) of this
section, the state board may adopt a student academic progress
measure to be used instead of the value-added progress dimension.
If the state board adopts such a measure, it also shall prescribe
a method for assigning letter grades for the new measure that is
comparable to the method prescribed in division (A)(1)(e) of this
section.
(f) The value-added progress dimension score of a school
district or building disaggregated for each of the following
subgroups: students identified as gifted in superior cognitive
ability and specific academic ability fields under Chapter 3324.
of the Revised Code, students with disabilities, and students
whose performance places them in the lowest quintile for
achievement on a statewide basis, as determined by a method
prescribed by the state board. Each subgroup shall be a separate
graded measure.
The state board may adopt student academic progress measures
to be used instead of the value-added progress dimension. If the
state board adopts such measures, it also shall prescribe a method
for assigning letter grades for the new measures that is
comparable to the method prescribed in division (A)(1)(e) of this
section.
(g) Whether a school district or building is making progress
in improving literacy in grades kindergarten through three, as
determined using a method prescribed by the state board. The state
board shall adopt rules to prescribe benchmarks and standards for
assigning grades to a district or building for purposes of
division (C)(1)(g) of this section. The state board shall
designate for a "C" grade a value that is not lower than the
previous year's statewide average value for this measure. No grade
shall be issued under division (C)(1)(g) of this section for a
district or building in which less than five per cent of students
have scored below grade level on the kindergarten diagnostic
assessment under division (B)(1) of section 3313.608 of the
Revised Code, unless five per cent or more of students fail to
score proficient or above on the English language arts assessment
prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code.
(h) For a high mobility school district or building, an
additional value-added progress dimension score. For this measure,
the department shall use value-added data from the most recent
school year available and shall use assessment scores for only
those students to whom the district or building has administered
the assessments prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised
Code for each of the two most recent consecutive school years.
As used in this division, "high mobility school district or
building" means a school district or building where at least
twenty-five per cent of its total enrollment is made up of
students who have attended that school district or building for
less than one year.
(2) In addition to the graded measures in division (C)(1) of
this section, the department shall include on a school district's
or building's report card all of the following without an assigned
letter grade:
(a) The percentage of students enrolled in a district or
building who have taken a national standardized test used for
college admission determinations and the percentage of those
students who are determined to be remediation-free in accordance
with the standards adopted under division (F) of section 3345.061
of the Revised Code;
(b) The percentage of students enrolled in a district or
building participating in advanced placement classes and the
percentage of those students who received a score of three or
better on advanced placement examinations;
(c) The percentage of a district's or building's students who
have earned at least three college credits through advanced
standing programs, such as the college credit plus program under
Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code and state-approved
career-technical courses offered through dual enrollment or
statewide articulation, that appear on a student's college
transcript issued by the institution of higher education from
which the student earned the college credit. The credits earned
that are reported under divisions (B)(2)(b) and (C)(2)(c) of this
section shall not include any that are remedial or developmental
and shall include those that count toward the curriculum
requirements established for completion of a degree.
(d) The percentage of the district's or building's students
who receive an honor's diploma under division (B) of section
3313.61 of the Revised Code;
(e) The percentage of the district's or building's students
who receive industry-recognized credentials;
(f) The percentage of students enrolled in a district or
building who are participating in an international baccalaureate
program and the percentage of those students who receive a score
of four or better on the international baccalaureate examinations;
(g) The results of the college and career-ready assessments
administered under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0712 of the
Revised Code.
(3) The state board shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter
119. of the Revised Code that establish a method to assign an
overall grade for a school district or school building for the
2014-2015 school year and each school year thereafter. The rules
shall group the performance measures in divisions (C)(1) and (2)
of this section into the following components:
(a) Gap closing, which shall include the performance measure
in division (C)(1)(a) of this section;
(b) Achievement, which shall include the performance measures
in divisions (C)(1)(b) and (c) of this section;
(c) Progress, which shall include the performance measures in
divisions (C)(1)(e) and (f) of this section;
(d) Graduation, which shall include the performance measure
in division (C)(1)(d) of this section;
(e) Kindergarten through third-grade literacy, which shall
include the performance measure in division (C)(1)(g) of this
section;
(f) Prepared for success, which shall include the performance
measures in divisions (C)(2)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of
this section. The state board shall develop a method to determine
a grade for the component in division (C)(3)(f) of this section
using the performance measures in divisions (C)(2)(a), (b), (c),
(d), (e), and (f) of this section. When available, the state board
may incorporate the performance measure under division (C)(2)(g)
of this section into the component under division (C)(3)(f) of
this section. When determining the overall grade for the prepared
for success component prescribed by division (C)(3)(f) of this
section, no individual student shall be counted in more than one
performance measure. However, if a student qualifies for more than
one performance measure in the component, the state board may, in
its method to determine a grade for the component, specify an
additional weight for such a student that is not greater than or
equal to 1.0. In determining the overall score under division
(C)(3)(f) of this section, the state board shall ensure that the
pool of students included in the performance measures aggregated
under that division are all of the students included in the four-
and five-year adjusted graduation cohort.
In the rules adopted under division (C)(3) of this section,
the state board shall adopt a method for determining a grade for
each component in divisions (C)(3)(a) to (f) of this section. The
state board also shall establish a method to assign an overall
grade of "A," "B," "C," "D," or "F" using the grades assigned for
each component. The method the state board adopts for assigning an
overall grade shall give equal weight to the components in
divisions (C)(3)(b) and (c) of this section.
At least forty-five days prior to the state board's adoption
of rules to prescribe the methods for calculating the overall
grade for the report card, as required by this division, the
department shall conduct a public presentation before the standing
committees of the house of representatives and the senate that
consider education legislation describing the format for the
report card, weights that will be assigned to the components of
the overall grade, and the method for calculating the overall
grade.
(D) Not later than July 1, 2015, the state board shall
develop a measure of student academic progress for high school
students using only data from assessments in English language arts
and mathematics. For the 2014-2015 school year, the department
shall include this measure on a school district or building's
report card, as applicable, without an assigned letter grade.
Beginning with the report card for the 2015-2016 school year, each
school district and applicable school building shall be assigned a
separate letter grade for this measure and the district's or
building's grade for that measure shall be included in determining
the district's or building's overall letter grade. This measure
shall be included within the measure prescribed in division
(C)(3)(c) of this section in the calculation for the overall
letter grade.
(E) The letter grades assigned to a school district or
building under this section shall be as follows:
(1) "A" for a district or school making excellent progress;
(2) "B" for a district or school making above average
progress;
(3) "C" for a district or school making average progress;
(4) "D" for a district or school making below average
progress;
(5) "F" for a district or school failing to meet minimum
progress.
(F) When reporting data on student achievement and progress,
the department shall disaggregate that data according to the
following categories:
(1) Performance of students by grade-level;
(2) Performance of students by race and ethnic group;
(3) Performance of students by gender;
(4) Performance of students grouped by those who have been
enrolled in a district or school for three or more years;
(5) Performance of students grouped by those who have been
enrolled in a district or school for more than one year and less
than three years;
(6) Performance of students grouped by those who have been
enrolled in a district or school for one year or less;
(7) Performance of students grouped by those who are
economically disadvantaged;
(8) Performance of students grouped by those who are enrolled
in a conversion community school established under Chapter 3314.
of the Revised Code;
(9) Performance of students grouped by those who are
classified as limited English proficient;
(10) Performance of students grouped by those who have
disabilities;
(11) Performance of students grouped by those who are
classified as migrants;
(12) Performance of students grouped by those who are
identified as gifted in superior cognitive ability and the
specific academic ability fields of reading and math pursuant to
Chapter 3324. of the Revised Code. In disaggregating specific
academic ability fields for gifted students, the department shall
use data for those students with specific academic ability in math
and reading. If any other academic field is assessed, the
department shall also include data for students with specific
academic ability in that field as well.
(13) Performance of students grouped by those who perform in
the lowest quintile for achievement on a statewide basis, as
determined by a method prescribed by the state board.
The department may disaggregate data on student performance
according to other categories that the department determines are
appropriate. To the extent possible, the department shall
disaggregate data on student performance according to any
combinations of two or more of the categories listed in divisions
(F)(1) to (13) of this section that it deems relevant.
In reporting data pursuant to division (F) of this section,
the department shall not include in the report cards any data
statistical in nature that is statistically unreliable or that
could result in the identification of individual students. For
this purpose, the department shall not report student performance
data for any group identified in division (F) of this section that
contains less than ten students. If the department does not report
student performance data for a group because it contains less than
ten students, the department shall indicate on the report card
that is why data was not reported.
(G) The department may include with the report cards any
additional education and fiscal performance data it deems
valuable.
(H) The department shall include on each report card a list
of additional information collected by the department that is
available regarding the district or building for which the report
card is issued. When available, such additional information shall
include student mobility data disaggregated by race and
socioeconomic status, college enrollment data, and the reports
prepared under section 3302.031 of the Revised Code.
The department shall maintain a site on the world wide web.
The report card shall include the address of the site and shall
specify that such additional information is available to the
public at that site. The department shall also provide a copy of
each item on the list to the superintendent of each school
district. The district superintendent shall provide a copy of any
item on the list to anyone who requests it.
(I) Division (I) of this section does not apply to conversion
community schools that primarily enroll students between sixteen
and twenty-two years of age who dropped out of high school or are
at risk of dropping out of high school due to poor attendance,
disciplinary problems, or suspensions.
(1) For any district that sponsors a conversion community
school under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, the department
shall combine data regarding the academic performance of students
enrolled in the community school with comparable data from the
schools of the district for the purpose of determining the
performance of the district as a whole on the report card issued
for the district under this section or section 3302.033 of the
Revised Code.
(2) Any district that leases a building to a community school
located in the district or that enters into an agreement with a
community school located in the district whereby the district and
the school endorse each other's programs may elect to have data
regarding the academic performance of students enrolled in the
community school combined with comparable data from the schools of
the district for the purpose of determining the performance of the
district as a whole on the district report card. Any district that
so elects shall annually file a copy of the lease or agreement
with the department.
(3) Any municipal school district, as defined in section
3311.71 of the Revised Code, that sponsors a community school
located within the district's territory, or that enters into an
agreement with a community school located within the district's
territory whereby the district and the community school endorse
each other's programs, may exercise either or both of the
following elections:
(a) To have data regarding the academic performance of
students enrolled in that community school combined with
comparable data from the schools of the district for the purpose
of determining the performance of the district as a whole on the
district's report card;
(b) To have the number of students attending that community
school noted separately on the district's report card.
The election authorized under division (I)(3)(a) of this
section is subject to approval by the governing authority of the
community school.
Any municipal school district that exercises an election to
combine or include data under division (I)(3) of this section, by
the first day of October of each year, shall file with the
department documentation indicating eligibility for that election,
as required by the department.
(J) The department shall include on each report card the
percentage of teachers in the district or building who are highly
qualified, as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and
a comparison of that percentage with the percentages of such
teachers in similar districts and buildings.
(K)(1) In calculating English language arts, mathematics,
social studies, or science assessment passage rates used to
determine school district or building performance under this
section, the department shall include all students taking an
assessment with accommodation or to whom an alternate assessment
is administered pursuant to division (C)(1) or (3) of section
3301.0711 of the Revised Code.
(2) In calculating performance index scores, rates of
achievement on the performance indicators established by the state
board under section 3302.02 of the Revised Code, and annual
measurable objectives for determining adequate yearly progress for
school districts and buildings under this section, the department
shall do all of the following:
(a) Include for each district or building only those students
who are included in the ADM certified for the first full school
week of October and are continuously enrolled in the district or
building through the time of the spring administration of any
assessment prescribed by division (A)(1) or (B)(1) of section
3301.0710 or division (B) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code
that is administered to the student's grade level;
(b) Include cumulative totals from both the fall and spring
administrations of the third grade English language arts
achievement assessment;
(c) Except as required by the No Child Left Behind Act of
2001, exclude for each district or building any limited English
proficient student who has been enrolled in United States schools
for less than one full school year.
(L) Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year and at least
once every three years thereafter, the state board of education
shall review and may adjust the benchmarks for assigning letter
grades to the performance measures and components prescribed under
divisions (C)(3) and (D) of this section.
Sec. 3302.035. (A) Not later than October 1, 2015, and not
later than the first day of October each year thereafter, the
department of education shall report for each school district,
each community school established under Chapter 3314., each STEM
school established under Chapter 3326., and each
college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter
3328. of the Revised Code, the following measures for students
with disabilities enrolled in that school district or community,
STEM, or college-preparatory boarding school:
(1) The value-added progress dimension score, as
disaggregated for that subgroup under division (C)(1)(f) of
section 3302.03 of the Revised Code;
(2) The performance index score for that subgroup, as defined
under division (A) of section 3302.01 of the Revised Code;
(3) The four- and five-year, five-, six-, seven-, and
eight-year adjusted cohort graduation rates, as defined under
divisions (G)(1) and (2) of section 3302.01 of the Revised Code,
for that subgroup;
(4) Annual measurable objectives for that subgroup;
(5) Data regarding disciplinary actions taken by the district
or school against students with disabilities compared with such
actions taken against students without disabilities.
(B) The department shall also calculate and report all of the
following:
(1) The state average for each of the measures specified in
division (A) of this section;
(2) The state average for the value-added progress dimension
score for students with disabilities, disaggregated by grade level
and subject area;
(3) The state average for the performance index score for
students with disabilities, disaggregated for each category of
disability described in divisions (A) to (F) of section 3317.013
of the Revised Code.
(C) The department shall make each report completed pursuant
to division divisions (A) and (B) of this section available on its
web site for comparison purposes.
(D) As used in this section:
(1) "Four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate" and
"five-year adjusted cohort graduation rate" have the same meanings
as in divisions (G)(1) and (2) of section 3302.01 of the Revised
Code.
(2) "Six-year adjusted cohort graduation rate" means the
number of students who graduate in six years with a regular high
school diploma divided by the number of students who form the
adjusted cohort for the four-year graduation rate.
(3) "Seven-year adjusted cohort graduation rate" means the
number of students who graduate in seven years with a regular high
school diploma divided by the number of students who form the
adjusted cohort for the four-year graduation rate.
(4) "Eight-year adjusted cohort graduation rate" means the
number of students who graduate in eight years with a regular high
school diploma divided by the number of students who form the
adjusted cohort for the four-year graduation rate.
Sec. 3313.534. No (A) Not later than July 1, 1998, the board
of education of each city, exempted village, and local school
district shall adopt a policy of zero tolerance for violent,
disruptive, or inappropriate behavior, including excessive
truancy, and establish strategies to address such behavior that
range from prevention to intervention.
No (B) Not later than July 1, 1999, each of the big eight
school districts, as defined in section 3314.02 of the Revised
Code, shall establish under section 3313.533 of the Revised Code
at least one alternative school to meet the educational needs of
students with severe discipline problems, including, but not
limited to, excessive truancy, excessive disruption in the
classroom, and multiple suspensions or expulsions. Any other
school district that attains after that date a significantly
substandard graduation rate, as defined by the department of
education, shall also establish such an alternative school under
that section.
(C)(1) Not later than June 30, 2015, the state board of
education shall develop a model disciplinary policy for violent,
disruptive, or inappropriate behavior, including excessive
truancy, that stresses preventive strategies and alternatives to
suspension and expulsion.
(2) Not later than December 31, 2015, the department of
education shall do both of the following:
(a) Provide to each school district a copy of the policy
adopted by the state board pursuant to division (C)(1) of this
section;
(b) Develop materials to assist school districts in providing
teacher and staff training on the implementation of the strategies
included in that policy.
Sec. 3313.603. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "One unit" means a minimum of one hundred twenty hours of
course instruction, except that for a laboratory course, "one
unit" means a minimum of one hundred fifty hours of course
instruction.
(2) "One-half unit" means a minimum of sixty hours of course
instruction, except that for physical education courses, "one-half
unit" means a minimum of one hundred twenty hours of course
instruction.
(B) Beginning September 15, 2001, except as required in
division (C) of this section and division (C) of section 3313.614
of the Revised Code, the requirements for graduation from every
high school shall include twenty units earned in grades nine
through twelve and shall be distributed as follows:
(1) English language arts, four units;
(2) Health, one-half unit;
(3) Mathematics, three units;
(4) Physical education, one-half unit;
(5) Science, two units until September 15, 2003, and three
units thereafter, which at all times shall include both of the
following:
(a) Biological sciences, one unit;
(b) Physical sciences, one unit.
(6) History and government, one unit, which shall comply with
division (M) of this section and shall include both of the
following:
(a) American history, one-half unit;
(b) American government, one-half unit.
(7) Social studies, two units.
Beginning with students who enter ninth grade for the first
time on or after July 1, 2017, the two units of instruction
prescribed by division (B)(7) of this section shall include at
least one-half unit of instruction in the study of world history
and civilizations.
(8) Elective units, seven units until September 15, 2003, and
six units thereafter.
Each student's electives shall include at least one unit, or
two half units, chosen from among the areas of
business/technology, fine arts, and/or foreign language.
(C) Beginning with students who enter ninth grade for the
first time on or after July 1, 2010, except as provided in
divisions (D) to (F) of this section, the requirements for
graduation from every public and chartered nonpublic high school
shall include twenty units that are designed to prepare students
for the workforce and college. The units shall be distributed as
follows:
(1) English language arts, four units;
(2) Health, one-half unit, which shall include instruction in
nutrition and the benefits of nutritious foods and physical
activity for overall health;
(3) Mathematics, four units, which shall include one unit of
algebra II or the equivalent of algebra II;
(4) Physical education, one-half unit;
(5) Science, three units with inquiry-based laboratory
experience that engages students in asking valid scientific
questions and gathering and analyzing information, which shall
include the following, or their equivalent:
(a) Physical sciences, one unit;
(b) Life sciences, one unit;
(c) Advanced study in one or more of the following sciences,
one unit:
(i) Chemistry, physics, or other physical science;
(ii) Advanced biology or other life science;
(iii) Astronomy, physical geology, or other earth or space
science.
(6) History and government, one unit, which shall comply with
division (M) of this section and shall include both of the
following:
(a) American history, one-half unit;
(b) American government, one-half unit.
(7) Social studies, two units.
Each school shall integrate the study of economics and
financial literacy, as expressed in the social studies academic
content standards adopted by the state board of education under
division (A)(1) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code and the
academic content standards for financial literacy and
entrepreneurship adopted under division (A)(2) of that section,
into one or more existing social studies credits required under
division (C)(7) of this section, or into the content of another
class, so that every high school student receives instruction in
those concepts. In developing the curriculum required by this
paragraph, schools shall use available public-private partnerships
and resources and materials that exist in business, industry, and
through the centers for economics education at institutions of
higher education in the state.
Beginning with students who enter ninth grade for the first
time on or after July 1, 2017, the two units of instruction
prescribed by division (C)(7) of this section shall include at
least one-half unit of instruction in the study of world history
and civilizations.
(8) Five units consisting of one or any combination of
foreign language, fine arts, business, career-technical education,
family and consumer sciences, technology, agricultural education,
a junior reserve officer training corps (JROTC) program approved
by the congress of the United States under title 10 of the United
States Code, or English language arts, mathematics, science, or
social studies courses not otherwise required under division (C)
of this section.
Ohioans must be prepared to apply increased knowledge and
skills in the workplace and to adapt their knowledge and skills
quickly to meet the rapidly changing conditions of the
twenty-first century. National studies indicate that all high
school graduates need the same academic foundation, regardless of
the opportunities they pursue after graduation. The goal of Ohio's
system of elementary and secondary education is to prepare all
students for and seamlessly connect all students to success in
life beyond high school graduation, regardless of whether the next
step is entering the workforce, beginning an apprenticeship,
engaging in post-secondary training, serving in the military, or
pursuing a college degree.
The requirements for graduation prescribed in division (C) of
this section are the standard expectation for all students
entering ninth grade for the first time at a public or chartered
nonpublic high school on or after July 1, 2010. A student may
satisfy this expectation through a variety of methods, including,
but not limited to, integrated, applied, career-technical, and
traditional coursework.
Whereas teacher quality is essential for student success when
completing the requirements for graduation, the general assembly
shall appropriate funds for strategic initiatives designed to
strengthen schools' capacities to hire and retain highly qualified
teachers in the subject areas required by the curriculum. Such
initiatives are expected to require an investment of $120,000,000
over five years.
Stronger coordination between high schools and institutions
of higher education is necessary to prepare students for more
challenging academic endeavors and to lessen the need for academic
remediation in college, thereby reducing the costs of higher
education for Ohio's students, families, and the state. The state
board and the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall
develop policies to ensure that only in rare instances will
students who complete the requirements for graduation prescribed
in division (C) of this section require academic remediation after
high school.
School districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic
schools shall integrate technology into learning experiences
across the curriculum in order to maximize efficiency, enhance
learning, and prepare students for success in the
technology-driven twenty-first century. Districts and schools
shall use distance and web-based course delivery as a method of
providing or augmenting all instruction required under this
division, including laboratory experience in science. Districts
and schools shall utilize technology access and electronic
learning opportunities provided by the broadcast educational media
commission, chancellor, the Ohio learning network, education
technology centers, public television stations, and other public
and private providers.
(D) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, a
student who enters ninth grade on or after July 1, 2010, and
before July 1, 2016, may qualify for graduation from a public or
chartered nonpublic high school even though the student has not
completed the requirements for graduation prescribed in division
(C) of this section if all of the following conditions are
satisfied:
(1) During the student's third year of attending high school,
as determined by the school, the student and the student's parent,
guardian, or custodian sign and file with the school a written
statement asserting the parent's, guardian's, or custodian's
consent to the student's graduating without completing the
requirements for graduation prescribed in division (C) of this
section and acknowledging that one consequence of not completing
those requirements is ineligibility to enroll in most state
universities in Ohio without further coursework.
(2) The student and parent, guardian, or custodian fulfill
any procedural requirements the school stipulates to ensure the
student's and parent's, guardian's, or custodian's informed
consent and to facilitate orderly filing of statements under
division (D)(1) of this section. Annually, each district or school
shall notify the department of education of the number of students
who choose to qualify for graduation under division (D) of this
section and the number of students who complete the student's
success plan and graduate from high school.
(3) The student and the student's parent, guardian, or
custodian and a representative of the student's high school
jointly develop a student success plan for the student in the
manner described in division (C)(1) of section 3313.6020 of the
Revised Code that specifies the student matriculating to a
two-year degree program, acquiring a business and
industry-recognized credential, or entering an apprenticeship.
(4) The student's high school provides counseling and support
for the student related to the plan developed under division
(D)(3) of this section during the remainder of the student's high
school experience.
(5)(a) Except as provided in division (D)(5)(b) of this
section, the student successfully completes, at a minimum, the
curriculum prescribed in division (B) of this section.
(b) Beginning with students who enter ninth grade for the
first time on or after July 1, 2014, a student shall be required
to complete successfully, at the minimum, the curriculum
prescribed in division (B) of this section, except as follows:
(i) Mathematics, four units, one unit which shall be one of
the following:
(I) Probability and statistics;
(II) Computer programming;
(III) Applied mathematics or quantitative reasoning;
(IV) Any other course approved by the department using
standards established by the superintendent not later than October
1, 2014.
(ii) Elective units, five units;
(iii) Science, three units as prescribed by division (B) of
this section which shall include inquiry-based laboratory
experience that engages students in asking valid scientific
questions and gathering and analyzing information.
The department, in collaboration with the chancellor, shall
analyze student performance data to determine if there are
mitigating factors that warrant extending the exception permitted
by division (D) of this section to high school classes beyond
those entering ninth grade before July 1, 2016. The department
shall submit its findings and any recommendations not later than
December 1, 2015, to the speaker and minority leader of the house
of representatives, the president and minority leader of the
senate, the chairpersons and ranking minority members of the
standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate
that consider education legislation, the state board of education,
and the superintendent of public instruction.
(E) Each school district and chartered nonpublic school
retains the authority to require an even more challenging minimum
curriculum for high school graduation than specified in division
(B) or (C) of this section. A school district board of education,
through the adoption of a resolution, or the governing authority
of a chartered nonpublic school may stipulate any of the
following:
(1) A minimum high school curriculum that requires more than
twenty units of academic credit to graduate;
(2) An exception to the district's or school's minimum high
school curriculum that is comparable to the exception provided in
division (D) of this section but with additional requirements,
which may include a requirement that the student successfully
complete more than the minimum curriculum prescribed in division
(B) of this section;
(3) That no exception comparable to that provided in division
(D) of this section is available.
(F) A student enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery
program, which program has received a waiver from the department,
may qualify for graduation from high school by successfully
completing a competency-based instructional program administered
by the dropout prevention and recovery program in lieu of
completing the requirements for graduation prescribed in division
(C) of this section. The department shall grant a waiver to a
dropout prevention and recovery program, within sixty days after
the program applies for the waiver, if the program meets all of
the following conditions:
(1) The program serves only students not younger than sixteen
years of age and not older than twenty-one years of age.
(2) The program enrolls students who, at the time of their
initial enrollment, either, or both, are at least one grade level
behind their cohort age groups or experience crises that
significantly interfere with their academic progress such that
they are prevented from continuing their traditional programs.
(3) The program requires students to attain at least the
applicable score designated for each of the assessments prescribed
under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code or,
to the extent prescribed by rule of the state board under division
(D)(5) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code, division (B)(2)
of that section.
(4) The program develops a student success plan for the
student in the manner described in division (C)(1) of section
3313.6020 of the Revised Code that specifies the student's
matriculating to a two-year degree program, acquiring a business
and industry-recognized credential, or entering an apprenticeship.
(5) The program provides counseling and support for the
student related to the plan developed under division (F)(4) of
this section during the remainder of the student's high school
experience.
(6) The program requires the student and the student's
parent, guardian, or custodian to sign and file, in accordance
with procedural requirements stipulated by the program, a written
statement asserting the parent's, guardian's, or custodian's
consent to the student's graduating without completing the
requirements for graduation prescribed in division (C) of this
section and acknowledging that one consequence of not completing
those requirements is ineligibility to enroll in most state
universities in Ohio without further coursework.
(7) Prior to receiving the waiver, the program has submitted
to the department an instructional plan that demonstrates how the
academic content standards adopted by the state board under
section 3301.079 of the Revised Code will be taught and assessed.
(8) Prior to receiving the waiver, the program has submitted
to the department a policy on career advising that satisfies the
requirements of section 3313.6020 of the Revised Code, with an
emphasis on how every student will receive career advising.
(9) Prior to receiving the waiver, the program has submitted
to the department a written agreement outlining the future
cooperation between the program and any combination of local job
training, postsecondary education, nonprofit, and health and
social service organizations to provide services for students in
the program and their families.
Divisions (F)(8) and (9) of this section apply only to
waivers granted on or after July 1, 2015.
If the department does not act either to grant the waiver or
to reject the program application for the waiver within sixty days
as required under this section, the waiver shall be considered to
be granted.
(G) Every high school may permit students below the ninth
grade to take advanced work. If a high school so permits, it shall
award high school credit for successful completion of the advanced
work and shall count such advanced work toward the graduation
requirements of division (B) or (C) of this section if the
advanced work was both:
(1) Taught by a person who possesses a license or certificate
issued under section 3301.071, 3319.22, or 3319.222 of the Revised
Code that is valid for teaching high school;
(2) Designated by the board of education of the city, local,
or exempted village school district, the board of the cooperative
education school district, or the governing authority of the
chartered nonpublic school as meeting the high school curriculum
requirements.
Each high school shall record on the student's high school
transcript all high school credit awarded under division (G) of
this section. In addition, if the student completed a seventh- or
eighth-grade fine arts course described in division (K) of this
section and the course qualified for high school credit under that
division, the high school shall record that course on the
student's high school transcript.
(H) The department shall make its individual academic career
plan available through its Ohio career information system web site
for districts and schools to use as a tool for communicating with
and providing guidance to students and families in selecting high
school courses.
(I) Units earned in English language arts, mathematics,
science, and social studies that are delivered through integrated
academic and career-technical instruction are eligible to meet the
graduation requirements of division (B) or (C) of this section.
(J) The state board, in consultation with the chancellor,
shall adopt a statewide plan implementing methods for students to
earn units of high school credit based on a demonstration of
subject area competency, instead of or in combination with
completing hours of classroom instruction. The state board shall
adopt the plan not later than March 31, 2009, and commence phasing
in the plan during the 2009-2010 school year. The plan shall
include a standard method for recording demonstrated proficiency
on high school transcripts. Each school district and community
school shall comply with the state board's plan adopted under this
division and award units of high school credit in accordance with
the plan. The state board may adopt existing methods for earning
high school credit based on a demonstration of subject area
competency as necessary prior to the 2009-2010 school year.
(K) This division does not apply to students who qualify for
graduation from high school under division (D) or (F) of this
section, or to students pursuing a career-technical instructional
track as determined by the school district board of education or
the chartered nonpublic school's governing authority.
Nevertheless, the general assembly encourages such students to
consider enrolling in a fine arts course as an elective.
Beginning with students who enter ninth grade for the first
time on or after July 1, 2010, each student enrolled in a public
or chartered nonpublic high school shall complete two semesters or
the equivalent of fine arts to graduate from high school. The
coursework may be completed in any of grades seven to twelve. Each
student who completes a fine arts course in grade seven or eight
may elect to count that course toward the five units of electives
required for graduation under division (C)(8) of this section, if
the course satisfied the requirements of division (G) of this
section. In that case, the high school shall award the student
high school credit for the course and count the course toward the
five units required under division (C)(8) of this section. If the
course in grade seven or eight did not satisfy the requirements of
division (G) of this section, the high school shall not award the
student high school credit for the course but shall count the
course toward the two semesters or the equivalent of fine arts
required by this division.
(L) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section,
the board of education of each school district and the governing
authority of each chartered nonpublic school may adopt a policy to
excuse from the high school physical education requirement each
student who, during high school, has participated in
interscholastic athletics, marching band, or cheerleading for at
least two full seasons or in the junior reserve officer training
corps for at least two full school years. If the board or
authority adopts such a policy, the board or authority shall not
require the student to complete any physical education course as a
condition to graduate. However, the student shall be required to
complete one-half unit, consisting of at least sixty hours of
instruction, in another course of study. In the case of a student
who has participated in the junior reserve officer training corps
for at least two full school years, credit received for that
participation may be used to satisfy the requirement to complete
one-half unit in another course of study.
(M) It is important that high school students learn and
understand United States history and the governments of both the
United States and the state of Ohio. Therefore, beginning with
students who enter ninth grade for the first time on or after July
1, 2012, the study of American history and American government
required by divisions (B)(6) and (C)(6) of this section shall
include the study of all of the following documents:
(1) The Declaration of Independence;
(2) The Northwest Ordinance;
(3) The Constitution of the United States with emphasis on
the Bill of Rights;
(4) The Ohio Constitution.
The study of each of the documents prescribed in divisions
(M)(1) to (4) of this section shall include study of that document
in its original context.
The study of American history and government required by
divisions (B)(6) and (C)(6) of this section shall include the
historical evidence of the role of documents such as the
Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers to firmly
establish the historical background leading to the establishment
of the provisions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Sec. 3313.612. (A) No nonpublic school chartered by the
state board of education shall grant a high school diploma to any
person unless, subject to section 3313.614 of the Revised Code,
the person has met the assessment requirements of division (A)(1)
or (2) of this section, as applicable.
(1) If the person entered the ninth grade prior to July 1,
2014, the person has attained at least the applicable scores
designated under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code on all the assessments required by that division, or
has satisfied the alternative conditions prescribed in section
3313.615 of the Revised Code.
(2) If the person entered the ninth grade on or after July 1,
2014, the person has met the requirement prescribed by section
3313.618 of the Revised Code.
(B) This section does not apply to any of the following:
(1) Any person with regard to any assessment from which the
person was excused pursuant to division (C)(1)(c) of section
3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(2) Any person that who attends a nonpublic school acting in
accordance with division (D) of this section with regard to any
end-of-course examination required under divisions (B)(2) and (3)
of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code, unless that person is a
student attending the school under a state scholarship program as
defined in section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(3) Any person with regard to the social studies assessment
under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code,
any American history end-of-course examination and any American
government end-of-course examination required under division (B)
of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code if such an exemption is
prescribed by rule of the state board of education under division
(D)(3) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code, or the
citizenship test under former division (B) of section 3301.0710 of
the Revised Code as it existed prior to September 11, 2001, if all
of the following apply:
(a) The person is not a citizen of the United States;
(b) The person is not a permanent resident of the United
States;
(c) The person indicates no intention to reside in the United
States after completion of high school.
(C) As used in this division, "limited English proficient
student" has the same meaning as in division (C)(3) of section
3301.0711 of the Revised Code.
Notwithstanding division (C)(3) of section 3301.0711 of the
Revised Code, no limited English proficient student who has not
either attained the applicable scores designated under division
(B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code on all the
assessments required by that division, or met the requirement
prescribed by section 3313.618 of the Revised Code, shall be
awarded a diploma under this section.
(D) A chartered nonpublic school chartered by the state board
may forgo the end-of-course examinations required by divisions
(B)(2) and (3) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code shall not
be subject to division (A)(2) of this section, if that school
publishes the results of the standardized assessment prescribed
under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code for
each graduating class. The published results shall include the
overall composite scores, mean scores, twenty-fifth percentile
scores, and seventy-fifth percentile scores for each subject area
of the assessment.
The exemption prescribed in division (D) of this section is
not available to a school that is subject to division (K)(1)(a) of
section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code nor does it apply to any
student attending a nonpublic school under a state scholarship
program as defined in that section.
(E) The state board shall not impose additional requirements
or assessments for the granting of a high school diploma under
this section that are not prescribed by this section.
(F) The department of education shall furnish the assessment
administered by a nonpublic school pursuant to division (B)(1) of
section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code.
(G) The exemption provided for in divisions (B)(2) and (D) of
this section shall be effective on and after October 1, 2015, but
only if the general assembly does not enact different requirements
regarding end-of-course examinations for chartered nonpublic
schools that are effective by that date.
Sec. 3313.672. (A)(1) At the time of initial entry to a
public or nonpublic school, a pupil shall present to the person in
charge of admission any records given the pupil by the public or
nonpublic elementary or secondary school the pupil most recently
attended; a certified copy of an order or decree, or modification
of such an order or decree allocating parental rights and
responsibilities for the care of a child and designating a
residential parent and legal custodian of the child, as provided
in division (B) of this section, if that type of order or decree
has been issued; a copy of a power of attorney or caretaker
authorization affidavit, if either has been executed with respect
to the child pursuant to sections 3109.51 to 3109.80 of the
Revised Code; and a certification of birth issued pursuant to
Chapter 3705. of the Revised Code, a comparable certificate or
certification issued pursuant to the statutes of another state,
territory, possession, or nation, or a document in lieu of a
certificate or certification as described in divisions (A)(1)(a)
to (e) of this section. Any of the following shall be accepted in
lieu of a certificate or certification of birth by the person in
charge of admission:
(a) A passport or attested transcript of a passport filed
with a registrar of passports at a point of entry of the United
States showing the date and place of birth of the child;
(b) An attested transcript of the certificate of birth;
(c) An attested transcript of the certificate of baptism or
other religious record showing the date and place of birth of the
child;
(d) An attested transcript of a hospital record showing the
date and place of birth of the child;
(2) If a pupil requesting admission to a school of the school
district in which the pupil is entitled to attend school under
section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code has been discharged
or released from the custody of the department of youth services
under section 5139.51 of the Revised Code just prior to requesting
admission to the school, no school official shall admit that pupil
until the records described in divisions (D)(4)(a) to (d) of
section 2152.18 of the Revised Code have been received by the
superintendent of the school district.
(3) No public or nonpublic school official shall deny a
protected child admission to the school solely because the child
does not present a birth certificate described in division (A)(1)
of this section, a comparable certificate or certification from
another state, territory, possession, or nation, or another
document specified in divisions (A)(1)(a) to (e) of this section
upon registration for entry into the school. However, the
protected child, or the parent, custodian, or guardian of that
child, shall present a birth certificate or other document
specified in divisions (A)(1)(a) to (e) of this section to the
person in charge of admission of the school within ninety days
after the child's initial entry into the school.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) or (3) of
this section, within twenty-four hours of the entry into the
school of a pupil described in division (A)(1) of this section, a
school official shall request the pupil's official records from
the public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school the pupil
most recently attended. If the public or nonpublic school the
pupil claims to have most recently attended indicates that it has
no record of the pupil's attendance or the records are not
received within fourteen days of the date of request, or if the
pupil does not present a certification of birth described in
division (A)(1) of this section, a comparable certificate or
certification from another state, territory, possession, or
nation, or another document specified in divisions (A)(1)(a) to
(e) of this section, the principal or chief administrative officer
of the school shall notify the law enforcement agency having
jurisdiction in the area where the pupil resides of this fact and
of the possibility that the pupil may be a missing child, as
defined in section 2901.30 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) Whenever an order or decree allocating parental rights
and responsibilities for the care of a child and designating a
residential parent and legal custodian of the child, including a
temporary order, is issued resulting from an action of divorce,
alimony, annulment, or dissolution of marriage, and the order or
decree pertains to a child who is a pupil in a public or nonpublic
school, the residential parent of the child shall notify the
school of those allocations and designations by providing the
person in charge of admission at the pupil's school with a
certified copy of the order or decree that made the allocation and
designation. Whenever there is a modification of any order or
decree allocating parental rights and responsibilities for the
care of a child and designating a residential parent and legal
custodian of the child that has been submitted to a school, the
residential parent shall provide the person in charge of admission
at the pupil's school with a certified copy of the order or decree
that makes the modification.
(2) Whenever a power of attorney is executed under sections
3109.51 to 3109.62 of the Revised Code that pertains to a child
who is a pupil in a public or nonpublic school, the attorney in
fact shall notify the school of the power of attorney by providing
the person in charge of admission with a copy of the power of
attorney. Whenever a caretaker authorization affidavit is executed
under sections 3109.64 to 3109.73 of the Revised Code that
pertains to a child who is in a public or nonpublic school, the
grandparent who executed the affidavit shall notify the school of
the affidavit by providing the person in charge of admission with
a copy of the affidavit.
(C) If, at the time of a pupil's initial entry to a public or
nonpublic school, the pupil is under the care of a shelter for
victims of domestic violence, as defined in section 3113.33 of the
Revised Code, the pupil or the pupil's parent shall notify the
school of that fact. Upon being so informed, the school shall
inform the elementary or secondary school from which it requests
the pupil's records of that fact.
(D) Whenever a public or nonpublic school is notified by a
law enforcement agency pursuant to division (D) of section 2901.30
of the Revised Code that a missing child report has been filed
regarding a pupil who is currently or was previously enrolled in
the school, the person in charge of admission at the school shall
mark that pupil's records in such a manner that whenever a copy of
or information regarding the records is requested, any school
official responding to the request is alerted to the fact that the
records are those of a missing child. Upon any request for a copy
of or information regarding a pupil's records that have been so
marked, the person in charge of admission immediately shall report
the request to the law enforcement agency that notified the school
that the pupil is a missing child. When forwarding a copy of or
information from the pupil's records in response to a request, the
person in charge of admission shall do so in such a way that the
receiving district or school would be unable to discern that the
pupil's records are marked pursuant to this division but shall
retain the mark in the pupil's records until notified that the
pupil is no longer a missing child. Upon notification by a law
enforcement agency that a pupil is no longer a missing child, the
person in charge of admission shall remove the mark from the
pupil's records in such a way that if the records were forwarded
to another district or school, the receiving district or school
would be unable to discern that the records were ever marked.
(E) As used in this section:
(1) "Protected child" means a child placed in a foster home,
as that term is defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, or
in a residential facility.
(2) "Residential facility" means a group home for children,
children's crisis care facility, children's residential center,
residential parenting facility that provides twenty-four-hour
child care, county children's home, or district children's home.
Sec. 3313.814. (A) As used in this section and sections
3313.816 and 3313.817 of the Revised Code:
(1) "A la carte item" means an individually priced food or
beverage item that is available for sale to students through any
of the following:
(a) A school food service program;
(b) A vending machine located on school property;
(c) A store operated by the school, a student association, or
other school-sponsored organization.
"A la carte item" does not include any food or beverage item
available for sale in connection with a school-sponsored
fundraiser held outside of the regular school day, any other
school-sponsored event held outside of the regular school day, or
an interscholastic athletic event. "A la carte item" also does not
include any food or beverage item that is part of a reimbursable
meal and that is available for sale as an individually priced item
in a serving portion of the same size as in the reimbursable meal,
regardless of whether the food or beverage item is included in the
reimbursable meal served on a particular school day.
(2) "Added sweeteners" means any additives that enhance the
sweetness of a beverage, including processed sugar. "Added
sweeteners" do not include any natural sugars found in fruit
juices that are a component of the beverage.
(3) "Extended school day" means the period before and after
the regular school day during which students participate in
school-sponsored extracurricular activities, latchkey programs as
defined in section 3313.207 of the Revised Code, or other academic
or enrichment programs.
(4) "Regular school day" means the period each school day
between the designated arrival time for students and the end of
the final instructional period.
(5) "Reimbursable meal" means a meal that is provided to
students through a school breakfast or lunch program established
under the "National School Lunch Act," 60 Stat. 230 (1946), 42
U.S.C. 1751, as amended, and the "Child Nutrition Act of 1966," 80
Stat. 885, 42 U.S.C. 1771, as amended, and that meets the criteria
for reimbursement established by the United States department of
agriculture.
(6) "School food service program" means a school food service
program operated under section 3313.81 or 3313.813 of the Revised
Code.
(B) Each school district board of education and each
chartered nonpublic school governing authority shall adopt and
enforce nutrition standards governing the types of food and
beverages that may be sold on the premises of its schools, and
specifying the time and place each type of food or beverage may be
sold.
(1) In adopting the standards, the board or governing
authority shall do all of the following:
(a) Consider the nutritional value of each food or beverage;
(b) Consult with a dietitian licensed under Chapter 4759. of
the Revised Code, a dietetic technician registered by the
commission on dietetic registration, or a school nutrition
specialist certified or credentialed by the school nutrition
association. The person with whom the board or governing authority
consults may be an employee of the board or governing authority, a
person contracted by the board or governing authority, or a
volunteer, provided the person meets the requirements of this
division.
(c) Consult the dietary guidelines for Americans jointly
developed by the United States department of agriculture and the
United States department of health and human services and, to the
maximum extent possible, incorporate the guidelines into the
standards.
(2) No food or beverage may be sold on any school premises
except in accordance with the standards adopted by the board or
governing authority.
(3) The standards shall comply with sections 3313.816 and
3313.817 of the Revised Code, but nothing in this section shall
prohibit the standards from being more restrictive than otherwise
required by those sections.
(C) The nutrition standards adopted under this section shall
prohibit the placement of vending machines in any classroom where
students are provided instruction, unless the classroom also is
used to serve students meals. This division does not apply to
vending machines that sell only milk, reimbursable meals, or food
and beverage items that are part of a reimbursable meal and are
available for sale as individually priced items in serving
portions of the same size as in the reimbursable meal.
(D) Each board or governing authority shall designate staff
to be responsible for ensuring that the school district or school
meets the nutrition standards adopted under this section. The
staff shall prepare an annual report regarding the district's or
school's compliance with the standards and submit it to the
department of education. The board or governing authority annually
shall schedule a presentation on the report at one of its regular
meetings. Each district or school shall make copies of the report
available to the public upon request.
(E) The state board of education shall formulate do both of
the following:
(1) Formulate and adopt guidelines, which boards of education
and chartered nonpublic schools may follow in enforcing and
implementing this section.
(2) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of
this amendment, adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the
Revised Code regarding the sale of beverages and food during the
regular school day in connection with a school-sponsored
fundraiser. The rules shall specify that, if a fundraiser takes
place during the regular school day for not more than the
equivalent of thirty school days during a school year, the sale of
beverages and food in connection with that fundraiser, shall be
exempt from sections 3313.816 and 3313.817 of the Revised Code, so
long as no beverages or food are sold in connection with the
fundraiser during the time of a meal service in the food service
area. Each school district board of education or chartered
nonpublic school governing authority may incorporate the rules
adopted by the state board pursuant to this division into the
guidelines adopted by the district board or school governing
authority under division (B) of this section.
Sec. 3314.06. The governing authority of each community
school established under this chapter shall adopt admission
procedures that specify the following:
(A) That, except as otherwise provided in this section,
admission to the school shall be open to any individual age five
to twenty-two entitled to attend school pursuant to section
3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code in a school district in the
state.
Additionally, except as otherwise provided in this section,
admission to the school may be open on a tuition basis to any
individual age five to twenty-two who is not a resident of this
state. The school shall not receive state funds under section
3314.08 of the Revised Code for any student who is not a resident
of this state.
An individual younger than five years of age may be admitted
to the school in accordance with division (A)(2) of section
3321.01 of the Revised Code. The school shall receive funds for an
individual admitted under that division in the manner provided
under section 3314.08 of the Revised Code.
If the school operates a program that uses the Montessori
method endorsed by the American Montessori society, the Montessori
accreditation council for teacher education, or the association
Montessori internationale as its primary method of instruction,
admission to the school may be open to individuals younger than
five years of age, but the school shall not receive funds under
this chapter for those individuals.
Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary in this chapter, individuals younger than five years
of age who are enrolled in a Montessori program shall be offered
at least four hundred fifty-five hours of learning opportunities
per school year.
(B)(1) That admission to the school may be limited to
students who have attained a specific grade level or are within a
specific age group; to students that meet a definition of
"at-risk," as defined in the contract; to residents of a specific
geographic area within the district, as defined in the contract;
or to separate groups of autistic students and nondisabled
students, as authorized in section 3314.061 of the Revised Code
and as defined in the contract.
(2) For purposes of division (B)(1) of this section,
"at-risk" students may include those students identified as gifted
students under section 3324.03 of the Revised Code.
(C) Whether enrollment is limited to students who reside in
the district in which the school is located or is open to
residents of other districts, as provided in the policy adopted
pursuant to the contract.
(D)(1) That there will be no discrimination in the admission
of students to the school on the basis of race, creed, color,
disability, or sex except that:
(a) The governing authority may do either of the following
for the purpose described in division (G) of this section:
(i) Establish a single-gender school for either sex;
(ii) Establish single-gender schools for each sex under the
same contract, provided substantially equal facilities and
learning opportunities are offered for both boys and girls. Such
facilities and opportunities may be offered for each sex at
separate locations.
(b) The governing authority may establish a school that
simultaneously serves a group of students identified as autistic
and a group of students who are not disabled, as authorized in
section 3314.061 of the Revised Code. However, unless the total
capacity established for the school has been filled, no student
with any disability shall be denied admission on the basis of that
disability.
(2) That upon admission of any student with a disability, the
community school will comply with all federal and state laws
regarding the education of students with disabilities.
(E) That the school may not limit admission to students on
the basis of intellectual ability, measures of achievement or
aptitude, or athletic ability, except that a school may limit its
enrollment to students as described in division (B) of this
section.
(F) That the community school will admit the number of
students that does not exceed the capacity of the school's
programs, classes, grade levels, or facilities.
(G) That the purpose of single-gender schools that are
established shall be to take advantage of the academic benefits
some students realize from single-gender instruction and
facilities and to offer students and parents residing in the
district the option of a single-gender education.
(H) That, except as otherwise provided under division (B) of
this section or section 3314.061 of the Revised Code, if the
number of applicants exceeds the capacity restrictions of division
(F) of this section, students shall be admitted by lot from all
those submitting applications, except preference shall be given to
students attending the school the previous year and to students
who reside in the district in which the school is located.
Preference may be given to siblings of students attending the
school the previous year.
Notwithstanding divisions (A) to (H) of this section, in the
event the racial composition of the enrollment of the community
school is violative of a federal desegregation order, the
community school shall take any and all corrective measures to
comply with the desegregation order.
Sec. 3317.034. For purposes of section 3317.03 of the
Revised Code:
(A) A student shall be considered to be enrolled in the
district for any portion of the school year the student is
participating at a college under Chapter 3365. of the Revised
Code.
(B) A student shall be considered to be enrolled in the
district for the period of time beginning on the date on which the
school has both received the documentation of the student's
enrollment from a parent and the student has commenced
participation in learning opportunities offered by the district.
For purposes of applying divisions (B) and (C) of this section,
"learning opportunities" means both classroom-based and
nonclassroom-based learning opportunities overseen by licensed
educational employees of the district that is in compliance with
criteria and documentation requirements for student participation,
which shall be established by the department. Any student's
instruction time in nonclassroom-based learning opportunities
shall be certified by an employee of the district.
(C) A student's enrollment shall be considered to cease on
the date on which any of the following occur:
(1) The district receives documentation from a parent
terminating enrollment of the student.
(2) The district is provided documentation of a student's
enrollment in another public or nonpublic school.
(3) The student fails to participate in learning
opportunities and has not received an excused absence for one
hundred and five continuous hours. If a student is withdrawn from
the district for failure to participate in learning opportunities
under division (C)(1)(a)(v) of this section and the district board
determines that the student is truant, the district shall take the
appropriate action required under sections 3321.19 and 3321.191 of
the Revised Code.
(4) The student ceases to participate in learning
opportunities provided by the school.
(D) No public school may enroll or withdraw a student from
the education management information system established under
section 3310.0714 of the Revised Code later than thirty days after
the student's actual enrollment or withdrawal from the school.
(E) A student in any of grades nine through twelve shall be
considered a full-time equivalent student if the student is
enrolled in at least five units of instruction, as defined in
section 3313.603 of the Revised Code, per school year.
Sec. 3319.227. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of
the Revised Code or any rule adopted by the state board of
education to the contrary, the state board shall issue a resident
educator license under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code to each
person who is assigned to teach in this state as a participant in
the teach for America program and who meets the following
conditions:
(1) Holds a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
of higher education;
(2) Maintained a cumulative undergraduate grade point average
of at least 2.5 out of 4.0, or its equivalent;
(3) Has passed an examination prescribed by the state board
in the subject area to be taught;
(4) Has successfully completed the summer training institute
operated by teach for America.
(B) The state board shall issue a resident educator license
under this section for teaching in any grade level or subject area
for which a person may obtain a resident educator license under
section 3319.22 of the Revised Code. The state board shall not
adopt rules establishing any additional qualifications for the
license beyond those specified in this section.
(C) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code
or any rule adopted by the state board to the contrary, the state
board shall issue a resident educator license under section
3319.22 of the Revised Code to any applicant who has completed at
least two years of teaching in another state as a participant in
the teach for America program and meets all of the conditions of
divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section. The state board shall
credit an applicant under this division as having completed two
years of the teacher residency program under section 3319.223 of
the Revised Code.
(D) In order to place teachers in this state, the teach for
America program shall enter into an agreement with one or more
accredited four-year public or private institutions of higher
education in the state to provide optional training of teach for
America participants for the purpose of enabling those
participants to complete an optional master's degree or an
equivalent amount of coursework. Nothing in this division shall
require any teach for America participant to complete a master's
degree as a condition of holding a license issued under this
section.
(E)(1) Each participant in the teach for America program
shall successfully complete that program as a condition of
continuing to hold a license issued pursuant to divisions (A) and
(B) of this section.
(2) If a participant in the teach for America program
assigned to teach in a school district in this state resigns or is
otherwise removed from the program prior to the program's
completion, the board of education of that school district shall
provide written notice of the participant's resignation to the
department of education.
Sec. 3319.261. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the
Revised Code or any rule adopted by the state board of education
to the contrary, the state board shall issue an alternative
resident educator license under division (C) of section 3319.26 of
the Revised Code to each applicant who meets the following
conditions:
(1) Holds a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
of higher education;
(2) Has successfully completed a teacher education program
offered by one of the following entities:
(a) Graduation from an The American Montessori
society-affiliated teacher education program society;
(b) Receipt of a certificate from the The association
Montessori internationale;
(c) An institution accredited by the Montessori accreditation
council for teacher education.
(3) Is employed in a school that operates a program that uses
the Montessori method endorsed by the American Montessori society,
the Montessori accreditation council for teacher education, or the
association Montessori internationale as its primary method of
instruction.
(B) The holder of an alternative resident educator license
issued under this section shall be subject to divisions (A), (B),
(D), and (E) of section 3319.26 of the Revised Code and shall be
granted a professional educator license upon successful completion
of the requirements described in division (F) of section 3319.26
of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3365.04. Each public and participating nonpublic
secondary school shall do all of the following with respect to the
college credit plus program:
(A) Provide information about the program prior to the first
day of March of each year to all students enrolled in grades six
through eleven;
(B) Provide counseling services to students in grades six
through eleven and to their parents before the students
participate in the program under this chapter to ensure that
students and parents are fully aware of the possible consequences
and benefits of participation. Counseling information shall
include:
(2) The process for granting academic credits;
(3) Any necessary financial arrangements for tuition,
textbooks, and fees;
(4) Criteria for any transportation aid;
(5) Available support services;
(7) Communicating the possible consequences and benefits of
participation, including all of the following:
(a) The consequences of failing or not completing a course
under the program, including the effect on the student's ability
to complete the secondary school's graduation requirements;
(b) The effect of the grade attained in a course under the
program being included in the student's grade point average, as
applicable;
(c) The benefits to the student for successfully completing a
course under the program, including the ability to reduce the
overall costs of, and the amount of time required for, a college
education.
(8) The academic and social responsibilities of students and
parents under the program;
(9) Information about and encouragement to use the counseling
services of the college in which the student intends to enroll;
(10) The standard packet of information for the program
developed by the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents pursuant
to section 3365.15 of the Revised Code;
For a participating nonpublic secondary school, counseling
information shall also include an explanation that funding may be
limited and that not all students who wish to participate may be
able to do so.
(C) Promote the program on the school's web site, including
the details of the school's current agreements with partnering
colleges;
(D) Schedule at least one informational session per school
year to allow each partnering college that is located within
thirty miles of the school to meet with interested students and
parents. The session shall include the benefits and consequences
of participation and shall outline any changes or additions to the
requirements of the program. If there are no partnering colleges
located within thirty miles of the school, the school shall
coordinate with the closest partnering college to offer an
informational session.
(E) Implement a policy for the awarding of grades and the
calculation of class standing for courses taken under division
(A)(2) or (B) of section 3365.06 of the Revised Code. The policy
adopted under this division shall be equivalent to the school's
policy for courses taken under the advanced standing programs
described in divisions (A)(2) and (3) of section 3313.6013 of the
Revised Code or for other courses designated as honors courses by
the school. If the policy includes awarding a weighted grade or
enhancing a student's class standing for these courses, the policy
adopted under this section shall also provide for these require
the same procedures to be applied to all courses taken in the
areas of mathematics, English language arts, science, and social
studies under the college credit plus program, regardless of
whether a similar course is offered at the school.
(F) Develop model course pathways, pursuant to section
3365.13 of the Revised Code, and publish the course pathways among
the school's official list of course offerings for the program.
(G) Annually collect, report, and track specified data
related to the program according to data reporting guidelines
adopted by the chancellor and the superintendent of public
instruction pursuant to section 3365.15 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3365.05. Each public and participating private college
shall do all of the following with respect to the college credit
plus program:
(A) Apply established standards and procedures for admission
to the college and for course placement for participants. When
determining admission and course placement, the college shall do
all of the following:
(1) Consider all available student data that may be an
indicator of college readiness, including grade point average and
end-of-course examination scores, if applicable;
(2) Give priority to its current students regarding
enrollment in courses. However, once a participant has been
accepted into a course, the college shall not displace the
participant for another student.
(3) Adhere to any capacity limitations that the college has
established for specified courses.
If a participant meets the applicable eligibility criteria
required for participation under the college credit plus program,
no public or participating private college shall prohibit the
admission of that participant based solely on the grade in which
the participant is currently enrolled.
(B) Send written notice to a participant, the participant's
parent, the participant's secondary school, and the superintendent
of public instruction, not later than fourteen calendar days prior
to the first day of classes for that term, of the participant's
admission to the college and to specified courses under the
program.
(C) Provide both of the following, not later than twenty-one
calendar days after the first day of classes for that term, to
each participant, participant's secondary school, and the
superintendent of public instruction:
(1) The courses and hours of enrollment of the participant;
(2) The option elected by the participant under division (A)
or (B) of section 3365.06 of the Revised Code for each course.
The college shall also provide to each partnering school a
roster of participants from that school that are enrolled in the
college and a list of course assignments for each participant.
(D) Promote the program on the college's web site, including
the details of the college's current agreements with partnering
secondary schools.
(E) Coordinate with each partnering secondary school that is
located within thirty miles of the college to present at least one
informational session per school year for interested students and
parents. The session shall include the benefits and consequences
of participation and shall outline any changes or additions to the
requirements of the program. If there are no partnering schools
located within thirty miles of the college, the college shall
coordinate with the closest partnering school to offer an
informational session.
(F) Assign an academic advisor that is employed by the
college to each participant enrolled in that college. Prior to the
date on which a withdrawal from a course would negatively affect a
participant's transcripted grade, as prescribed by the college's
established withdrawal policy, the college shall ensure that the
academic advisor and the participant meet at least once to discuss
the program and the courses in which the participant is enrolled.
(G) Do both of the following with regard to high school
teachers that are teaching courses for the college at a secondary
school under the program:
(1) Provide at least one professional development session per
school year;
(2) Conduct at least one classroom observation per school
year for each course that is authorized by the college and taught
by a high school teacher to ensure that the course meets the
quality of a college-level course.
(H) Annually collect, report, and track specified data
related to the program according to data reporting guidelines
adopted by the chancellor and the superintendent of public
instruction pursuant to section 3365.15 of the Revised Code.
(I) With the exception of divisions (D) and (E) of this
section, any eligible out-of-state college participating in the
college credit plus program shall be subject to the same
requirements as a participating private college under this
section.
Sec. 3365.07. The department of education shall calculate
and pay state funds to colleges for participants in the college
credit plus program under division (B) of section 3365.06 of the
Revised Code pursuant to this section. For a nonpublic secondary
school participant, a nonchartered nonpublic secondary school
participant, or a home-instructed participant, the department
shall pay state funds pursuant to this section only if that
participant is awarded funding according to rules adopted by the
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, in consultation with the
superintendent of public instruction, pursuant to section 3365.071
of the Revised Code. The program shall be the sole mechanism by
which state funds are paid to colleges for students to earn
college-level credit while enrolled in a secondary school, with
the exception of the programs listed in division (A) of section
3365.02 of the Revised Code.
(A) For each public or nonpublic secondary school participant
enrolled in a public college:
(1) If no agreement has been entered into under division
(A)(2) of this section, both of the following shall apply:
(a) The department shall pay to the college the applicable
amount as follows:
(i) For a participant enrolled in a college course delivered
on the college campus, at another location operated by the
college, or online, the default ceiling amount;
(ii) For a participant enrolled in a college course delivered
at the participant's secondary school but taught by college
faculty, fifty per cent of the default ceiling amount;
(iii) For a participant enrolled in a college course
delivered at the participant's secondary school and taught by a
high school teacher who has met the credential requirements
established for purposes of the program in rules adopted by the
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, the default floor amount.
(b) The participant's secondary school shall pay for
textbooks, and the college shall waive payment of all other fees
related to participation in the program.
(2) The governing entity of a participant's secondary school
and the college may enter into an agreement to establish an
alternative payment structure for tuition, textbooks, and fees.
Under such an agreement, payments for each participant made by the
department shall be not less than the default floor amount, unless
approved by the chancellor, and not more than the default ceiling
amount. The chancellor shall approve an agreement that includes a
payment below the default floor amount, as long as the provisions
of the agreement comply with all other requirements of this
chapter to ensure program quality. If no agreement is entered into
under division (A)(2) of this section, both of the following shall
apply:
(a) The department shall pay to the college the applicable
default amounts prescribed by division (A)(1)(a) of this section,
depending upon the method of delivery and instruction.
(b) In accordance with division (A)(1)(b) of this section,
the participant's secondary school shall pay for textbooks, and
the college shall waive payment of all other fees related to
participation in the program.
(3) No participant that is enrolled in a public college shall
be charged for any tuition, textbooks, or other fees related to
participation in the program.
(B) For each public secondary school participant enrolled in
a private college:
(1) If no agreement has been entered into under division
(B)(2) of this section, the department shall pay to the college
the applicable amount calculated in the same manner as in division
(A)(1)(a) of this section.
(2) The governing entity of a participant's secondary school
and the college may enter into an agreement to establish an
alternative payment structure for tuition, textbooks, and fees.
Under such an agreement, payments shall be not less than the
default floor amount, unless approved by the chancellor, and not
more than the default ceiling amount.
If an agreement is entered into under division (B)(2) of this
section, both of the following shall apply:
(a) The department shall make a payment to the college for
each participant that is equal to the default floor amount, unless
approved by the chancellor to pay an amount below the default
floor amount. The chancellor shall approve an agreement that
includes a payment below the default floor amount, as long as the
provisions of the agreement comply with all other requirements of
this chapter to ensure program quality.
(b) Payment for costs for the participant that exceed the
amount paid by the department pursuant to division (B)(2)(a) of
this section shall be negotiated by the school and the college.
The agreement may include a stipulation permitting the charging of
a participant, so long as the school provides information to all
participants on the no-cost options available under this chapter.
However, under no circumstances shall:
(i) Payments for a participant made by the department under
this division (B)(2) of this section exceed the default ceiling
amount;
(ii) The amount charged to a participant under division
(B)(2) of this section exceed the difference between the maximum
per participant charge amount and the default floor amount;
(iii) The sum of the payments made by the department for a
participant and the amount charged to that participant under
division (B)(2) of this section exceed the following amounts, as
applicable:
(I) For a participant enrolled in a college course delivered
on the college campus, at another location operated by the
college, or online, the maximum per participant charge amount;
(II) For a participant enrolled in a college course delivered
at the participant's secondary school but taught by college
faculty, one hundred twenty-five dollars;
(III) For a participant enrolled in a college course
delivered at the participant's secondary school and taught by a
high school teacher who has met the credential requirements
established for purposes of the program in rules adopted by the
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, one hundred dollars.
(iv) A participant that is identified as economically
disadvantaged according to rules adopted by the department be
charged under division (B)(2) of this section for any tuition,
textbooks, or other fees related to participation in the program.
(C) For each nonpublic secondary school participant enrolled
in a private or eligible out-of-state college, the department
shall pay to the college the applicable amount calculated in the
same manner as in division (A)(1)(a) of this section. Payment for
costs for the participant that exceed the amount paid by the
department shall be negotiated by the governing body of the
nonpublic secondary school and the college.
However, under no circumstances shall:
(1) The payments for a participant made by the department
under this division exceed the default ceiling amount.
(2) Any nonpublic secondary school participant, who is
enrolled in that secondary school with a scholarship awarded under
either the educational choice scholarship pilot program, as
prescribed by sections 3310.01 to 3310.17, or the pilot project
scholarship program, as prescribed by sections 3313.974 to
3313.979 of the Revised Code, and who qualifies as a low-income
student under either of those programs, be charged for any
tuition, textbooks, or other fees related to participation in the
college credit plus program.
(D) For each nonchartered nonpublic secondary school
participant and each home-instructed participant enrolled in a
public, private, or eligible out-of-state college, the department
shall pay to the college the default ceiling amount, if that
participant is enrolled in a college course delivered on the
college campus, at another location operated by the college, or
online.
(E) Not later than thirty days after the end of each term,
each college expecting to receive payment for the costs of a
participant under this section shall notify the department of the
number of enrolled credit hours for each participant.
(F) Each January and July, or as soon as possible thereafter,
the department shall make the applicable payments under this
section to each college, which provided proper notification to the
department under division (E) of this section, for the number of
enrolled credit hours for participants enrolled in the college
under division (B) of section 3365.06 of the Revised Code. The
department shall not make any payments to a college under this
section if a participant withdrew from a course prior to the date
on which a withdrawal from the course would have negatively
affected the participant's transcripted grade, as prescribed by
the college's established withdrawal policy.
(1) Payments made for public secondary school participants
under this section shall be deducted from the school foundation
payments made to the participant's school district or, if the
participant is enrolled in a community school, a STEM school, or a
college-preparatory boarding school, from the payments made to
that school under section 3314.08, 3326.33, or 3328.34 of the
Revised Code. If the participant is enrolled in a joint vocational
school district, a portion of the amount shall be deducted from
the payments to the joint vocational school district and a portion
shall be deducted from the payments to the participant's city,
local, or exempted village school district in accordance with the
full-time equivalency of the student's enrollment in each
district. Amounts deducted under division (F)(1) of this section
shall be calculated in accordance with rules adopted by the
chancellor, in consultation with the state superintendent,
pursuant to division (B) of section 3365.071 of the Revised Code.
(2) Payments made for nonpublic secondary school
participants, nonchartered nonpublic secondary school
participants, and home-instructed participants under this section
shall be deducted from moneys appropriated by the general assembly
for such purpose. Payments shall be allocated and distributed in
accordance with rules adopted by the chancellor, in consultation
with the state superintendent, pursuant to division (A) of section
3365.071 of the Revised Code.
(G) Any public college that enrolls a student under division
(B) of section 3365.06 of the Revised Code may include that
student in the calculation used to determine its state share of
instruction funds appropriated to the Ohio board of regents by the
general assembly.
Section 2. That existing sections 3301.0711, 3301.0712,
3302.02, 3302.03, 3302.035, 3313.534, 3313.603, 3313.612,
3313.672, 3313.814, 3314.06, 3317.034, 3319.227, 3319.261,
3365.04, 3365.05, and 3365.07 of the Revised Code are hereby
repealed.
Section 3. That Section 263.20 of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the
130th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the
130th General Assembly, be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 263.20. OPERATING EXPENSES
A portion of the foregoing appropriation item 200321,
Operating Expenses, shall be used by the Department of Education
to provide matching funds under 20 U.S.C. 2321.
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200408, Early Childhood
Education, up to $50,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to
support the operations of the "Ready, Set, Go...to Kindergarten"
Program at the Horizon Education Center in Lorain County. The
effectiveness of the program shall be evaluated and reported to
the Department of Education in a study that includes statistics on
program participants' scores for the "Get It, Got It, Go!"
assessment and the kindergarten readiness assessment.
The Department of Education shall distribute the remainder of
the foregoing appropriation item 200408, Early Childhood
Education, to pay the costs of early childhood education programs.
The Department shall distribute such funds directly to qualifying
providers.
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Provider" means a city, local, exempted village, or
joint vocational school district; an educational service center; a
community school; a chartered nonpublic school; an early childhood
education child care provider licensed under Chapter 5104. of the
Revised Code that participates in and meets at least the third
highest tier of the tiered quality rating and improvement system
described in section 5104.30 of the Revised Code; or a combination
of entities described in this paragraph.
(2)(a) In the case of a city, local, or exempted village
school district or early childhood education child care provider
licensed under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code, "new eligible
provider" means a provider that did not receive state funding for
Early Childhood Education in the previous fiscal year or
demonstrates a need for early childhood programs as defined in
division (D) of this section.
(b) In the case of a community school, "new eligible
provider" means a community school that operates a program that
uses the Montessori method endorsed by the American Montessori
society, the Montessori accreditation council for teacher
education, or the association Montessori internationale as its
primary method of instruction, as authorized by division (A) of
section 3314.06 of the Revised Code, that did not receive state
funding for Early Childhood Education in the previous fiscal year
or demonstrates a need for early childhood programs as defined in
division (D) of this section.
(3) "Eligible child" means a child who is at least three
years of age as of the district entry date for kindergarten, is
not of the age to be eligible for kindergarten, and whose family
earns not more than two hundred per cent of the federal poverty
guidelines as defined in division (A)(3) of section 5101.46 of the
Revised Code. Children with an Individualized Education Program
and where the Early Childhood Education program is the least
restrictive environment may be enrolled on their third birthday.
(4) "Early learning program standards" means early learning
program standards for school readiness developed by the Department
to assess the operation of early learning programs.
(B) In each fiscal year, up to two per cent of the total
appropriation may be used by the Department for program support
and technical assistance. The Department shall distribute the
remainder of the appropriation in each fiscal year to serve
eligible children.
(C) The Department shall provide an annual report to the
Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the
President of the Senate and post the report to the Department's
web site, regarding early childhood education programs operated
under this section and the early learning program standards.
(D) After setting aside the amounts to make payments due from
the previous fiscal year, in fiscal year 2014, the Department
shall distribute funds first to recipients of funds for early
childhood education programs under Section 267.10.10 of Am. Sub.
H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub.
H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly, in the previous fiscal
year and the balance to new eligible providers of early childhood
education programs under this section or to existing providers to
serve more eligible children or for purposes of program expansion,
improvement, or special projects to promote quality and
innovation.
After setting aside the amounts to make payments due from the
previous fiscal year, in fiscal year 2015, the Department shall
distribute funds first to providers of early childhood education
programs under this section in the previous fiscal year and the
balance to new eligible providers or to existing providers to
serve more eligible children as outlined under division (E) of
this section or for purposes of program expansion, improvement, or
special projects to promote quality and innovation.
(E) The Department shall distribute any new or remaining
funding to existing providers of early childhood education
programs or any new eligible providers in an effort to invest in
high quality early childhood programs where there is a need as
determined by the Department. The Department shall distribute the
new or remaining funds to existing providers of early childhood
education programs or any new eligible providers to serve
additional eligible children based on community economic
disadvantage, limited access to high quality preschool or
childcare services, and demonstration of high quality preschool
services as determined by the Department using new metrics
developed pursuant to Ohio's Race to the Top—Early Learning
Challenge Grant, awarded to the Department in December 2011.
Awards under divisions (D) and (E) of this section shall be
distributed on a per-pupil basis, and in accordance with division
(I) of this section. The Department may adjust the per-pupil
amount so that the per-pupil amount multiplied by the number of
eligible children enrolled and receiving services on the first day
of December or the business day closest to that date equals the
amount allocated under this section.
(F) Costs for developing and administering an early childhood
education program may not exceed fifteen per cent of the total
approved costs of the program.
All providers shall maintain such fiscal control and
accounting procedures as may be necessary to ensure the
disbursement of, and accounting for, these funds. The control of
funds provided in this program, and title to property obtained,
shall be under the authority of the approved provider for purposes
provided in the program unless, as described in division (K) of
this section, the program waives its right for funding or a
program's funding is eliminated or reduced due to its inability to
meet financial or early learning program standards. The approved
provider shall administer and use such property and funds for the
purposes specified.
(G) The Department may examine a provider's financial and
program records. If the financial practices of the program are not
in accordance with standard accounting principles or do not meet
financial standards outlined under division (F) of this section,
or if the program fails to substantially meet the early learning
program standards, meet a quality rating level in the tiered
quality rating and improvement system developed under section
5104.30 of the Revised Code as prescribed by the Department, or
exhibits below average performance as measured against the
standards, the early childhood education program shall propose and
implement a corrective action plan that has been approved by the
Department. The approved corrective action plan shall be signed by
the chief executive officer and the executive of the official
governing body of the provider. The corrective action plan shall
include a schedule for monitoring by the Department. Such
monitoring may include monthly reports, inspections, a timeline
for correction of deficiencies, and technical assistance to be
provided by the Department or obtained by the early childhood
education program. The Department may withhold funding pending
corrective action. If an early childhood education program fails
to satisfactorily complete a corrective action plan, the
Department may deny expansion funding to the program or withdraw
all or part of the funding to the program and establish a new
eligible provider through a selection process established by the
Department.
(H)(1) If the early childhood education program is licensed
by the Department of Education and is not highly rated, as
determined by the Director of Job and Family Services, under the
tiered quality rating and improvement system described in section
5104.30 of the Revised Code, the program shall do all of the
following:
(a) Meet teacher qualification requirements prescribed by
section 3301.311 of the Revised Code;
(b) Align curriculum to the early learning content standards
developed by the Department;
(c) Meet any child or program assessment requirements
prescribed by the Department;
(d) Require teachers, except teachers enrolled and working to
obtain a degree pursuant to section 3301.311 of the Revised Code,
to attend a minimum of twenty hours every two years of
professional development as prescribed by the Department;
(e) Document and report child progress as prescribed by the
Department;
(f) Meet and report compliance with the early learning
program standards as prescribed by the Department;
(g) Participate in the tiered quality rating and improvement
system developed under section 5104.30 of the Revised Code.
Effective July 1, 2016, all programs shall be rated through the
system.
(2) If the program is highly rated, as determined by the
Director of Job and Family Services, under the tiered quality
rating and improvement system developed under section 5104.30 of
the Revised Code, the program shall comply with the requirements
of that system.
(I) Per-pupil funding for programs subject to this section
shall be sufficient to provide eligible children with services for
a standard early childhood schedule which shall be defined in this
section as a minimum of twelve and one-half hours per school week
as defined in section 3313.62 of the Revised Code for the minimum
school year as defined in sections 3313.48, 3313.481, and 3313.482
of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prohibit program providers from utilizing other funds to serve
eligible children in programs that exceed the twelve and one-half
hours per week or that exceed the minimum school year. For any
provider for which a standard early childhood education schedule
creates a hardship or for which the provider shows evidence that
the provider is working in collaboration with a preschool special
education program, the provider may submit a waiver to the
Department requesting an alternate schedule. If the Department
approves a waiver for an alternate schedule that provides services
for less time than the standard early childhood education
schedule, the Department may reduce the provider's annual
allocation proportionately. Under no circumstances shall an annual
allocation be increased because of the approval of an alternate
schedule.
(J) Each provider shall develop a sliding fee scale based on
family incomes and shall charge families who earn more than two
hundred per cent of the federal poverty guidelines, as defined in
division (A)(3) of section 5101.46 of the Revised Code, for the
early childhood education program.
The Department shall conduct an annual survey of each
provider to determine whether the provider charges families
tuition or fees, the amount families are charged relative to
family income levels, and the number of families and students
charged tuition and fees for the early childhood program.
(K) If an early childhood education program voluntarily
waives its right for funding, or has its funding eliminated for
not meeting financial standards or the early learning program
standards, the provider shall transfer control of title to
property, equipment, and remaining supplies obtained through the
program to providers designated by the Department and return any
unexpended funds to the Department along with any reports
prescribed by the Department. The funding made available from a
program that waives its right for funding or has its funding
eliminated or reduced may be used by the Department for new grant
awards or expansion grants. The Department may award new grants or
expansion grants to eligible providers who apply. The eligible
providers who apply must do so in accordance with the selection
process established by the Department.
(L) Eligible expenditures for the Early Childhood Education
Program shall be claimed each fiscal year to help meet the state's
TANF maintenance of effort requirement. The Superintendent of
Public Instruction and the Director of Job and Family Services
shall enter into an interagency agreement to carry out the
requirements under this division, which shall include developing
reporting guidelines for these expenditures.
(M) The Early Childhood Advisory Council established under
section 3301.90 of the Revised Code shall provide, by October 1,
2013, recommendations including, but not limited to, the
administration, implementation, and distribution of funding for an
early childhood voucher program, to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the Governor's Office of 21st Century Education, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the
Senate, and the chairpersons of the standing committees of the
House of Representatives and the Senate that deal primarily with
issues of education. Decisions on the implementation of the
voucher program shall be made by the Governor's Office of 21st
Century Education with recommendations from the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Early Childhood
Advisory Council.
Section 4. That existing Section 263.20 of Am. Sub. H.B. 59
of the 130th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of
the 130th General Assembly, is hereby repealed.
Section 5. That Section 263.320 of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the
130th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 483 of the
130th General Assembly, be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 263.320. LOTTERY PROFITS EDUCATION FUND
Appropriation item 200612, Foundation Funding (Fund 7017),
shall be used in conjunction with appropriation item 200550,
Foundation Funding (GRF), to provide state foundation payments to
school districts.
The Department of Education, with the approval of the
Director of Budget and Management, shall determine the monthly
distribution schedules of appropriation item 200550, Foundation
Funding (GRF), and appropriation item 200612, Foundation Funding
(Fund 7017). If adjustments to the monthly distribution schedule
are necessary, the Department of Education shall make such
adjustments with the approval of the Director of Budget and
Management.
CAREER ADVISING AND MENTORING PROGRAM
The foregoing appropriation item 200629, Career Advising and
Mentoring, shall be used by the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction to create the Career Advising and Mentoring Grant
Program. The Superintendent shall develop guidelines for the
grants. The program shall award competitive matching grants to
provide funding for local networks of volunteers and organizations
to sponsor career advising and mentoring for students in eligible
school districts. Each grant award shall match up to three times
the funds allocated to the project by the local network. Eligible
school districts are those with a high percentage of students in
poverty, a high number of students not graduating on time, and
other criteria as determined by the State Superintendent. Eligible
school districts shall partner with members of the business
community, civic organizations, or the faith-based community to
provide sustainable career advising and mentoring services.
An amount equal to the unexpended, unencumbered portion of
the foregoing appropriation item 200629, Career Advising and
Mentoring Program, at the end of fiscal year 2015 is hereby
reappropriated to the Department of Education for the same purpose
for fiscal year 2016.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200648, Straight A Fund,
up to $70,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by Kids Unlimited
of Toledo for quality after-school tutoring and mentoring programs
in two elementary school buildings in Lucas County. The school
buildings may include any community school, chartered nonpublic
school, or building that is part of a city, local, or exempted
village school district. Kids Unlimited of Toledo shall provide
local matching funds equal to the set-aside.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200648, Straight A Fund,
up to $250,000 in each fiscal year may be used to make competitive
grants in accordance with Section 263.324 of this act.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200648, Straight A Fund,
up to $6,000,000 in fiscal year 2014 shall be distributed to the
Cleveland Municipal School District to be used, as determined by
the Department of Education, to implement provisions of Am. Sub.
H.B. 525 of the 129th General Assembly.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200648, Straight A Fund,
up to $5,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be provided to school
districts that meet the conditions prescribed in division (G)(3)
of section 3317.0212 of the Revised Code to support innovations
that improve the efficiency of pupil transportation. This may
include, but is not limited to, the purchase of buses and other
equipment. The Department of Education shall distribute these
funds to districts based on each district's qualifying ridership
as reported under division (B) of section 3317.0212 of the Revised
Code.
The remainder of appropriation item 200648, Straight A Fund,
shall be used to make competitive grants in accordance with
Section 263.325 of this act.
The foregoing appropriation item 200666, EdChoice Expansion,
shall be used as follows:
(A) In fiscal year 2014, notwithstanding section 3310.032 of
the Revised Code, the Department of Education shall administer an
expansion of the Educational Choice Scholarship program as
follows:
(1) A student is an "eligible student" for purposes of the
expansion of the Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program
under division (A) of this section if the student's resident
district is not a school district in which the pilot project
scholarship program is operating under sections 3313.974 to
3313.979 of the Revised Code and the student's family income is at
or below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty guidelines,
as defined in section 5101.46 of the Revised Code.
(2) The Department shall pay scholarships to attend chartered
nonpublic schools in accordance with section 3310.08 of the
Revised Code. The number of scholarships awarded under division
(A) of this section shall not exceed the number that can be funded
with appropriations made by the general assembly for this purpose.
(3) Scholarships under division (A) of this section shall be
awarded for the 2013-2014 school year, to eligible students who
are entering kindergarten in that school year for the first time.
(4) If the number of eligible students who apply for a
scholarship exceeds the scholarships available based on the
appropriation for division (A) of this section, the department
shall award scholarships in the following order of priority:
(a) First, to eligible students with family incomes at or
below one hundred per cent of the federal poverty guidelines.
(b) Second, to other eligible students who qualify under
division (A) of this section. If the number of students described
in division (A)(4)(b) of this section exceeds the number of
available scholarships after awards are made under division
(A)(4)(a) of this section, the department shall select students
described in division (A)(4)(b) of this section by lot to receive
any remaining scholarships.
(5) A student who receives a scholarship under division (A)
of this section remains an eligible student and may continue to
receive scholarships under section 3310.032 of the Revised Code in
subsequent school years until the student completes grade twelve,
so long as the student satisfies the conditions specified in
divisions (E)(2) and (3) of section 3310.03 of the Revised Code.
Once a scholarship is awarded under this section, the student
shall remain eligible for that scholarship for the current and
subsequent school years, even if the student's family income rises
above the amount specified in division (A) of section 3310.032 of
the Revised Code, provided the student remains enrolled in a
chartered nonpublic school.
(B) In fiscal year 2015, to provide for the scholarships
awarded under the expansion of the educational choice program
established under section 3310.032 of the Revised Code. The number
of scholarships awarded under the expansion of the educational
choice program shall not exceed the number that can be funded with
the appropriations made by the General Assembly for this purpose.
COMMUNITY SCHOOL FACILITIES
The foregoing appropriation item 200684, Community School
Facilities, shall be used to pay each community school established
under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code that is not an internet-
or computer-based community school and each STEM school
established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code an amount
equal to $100 for each full-time equivalent pupil for assistance
with the cost associated with facilities. If the amount
appropriated is not sufficient, the Department of Education shall
prorate the amounts so that the aggregate amount appropriated is
not exceeded.
Section 6. That existing Section 263.320 of Am. Sub. H.B. 59
of the 130th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 483 of
the 130th General Assembly, is hereby repealed.
Section 7. That Section 9 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 130th
General Assembly be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 9. (A) For the 2014-2015 school year, each school
district, community school established under Chapter 3314., or
STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code
shall administer to third grade students, for purposes of section
3313.608 of the Revised Code, the English language arts assessment
required under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code
to third grade students for purposes of section
3313.608 of the Revised Code as follows:
(1) For the fall administration of the assessment, each
district or school shall administer the English language arts
assessment for third graders that the school administered for the
previous year under that section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.
(2) For the spring administration of the assessment to any
student who fails to attain at least the score range prescribed by
division (A)(3) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, each
district or school shall administer the English language arts
assessment for third graders that the school administered for the
previous year under section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.
(3) For the spring administration of the assessment to any
student who has attained at least the score range prescribed by
division (A)(3) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, each
district or school shall administer the English language arts
assessment developed by the Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).
(B) The For the 2014-2015 school year, the Department shall
use the assessments described in
divisions division (A)(1) and
(2) of this section to calculate a district's or school's grades
on the state report card prescribed by section 3302.03 of the
Revised Code.
A school district or building shall be considered to have met
the performance indicator for the third-grade English language
arts assessment described in division (A) of this section, if at
least eighty per cent of the tested students attain a score of
proficient or higher on the assessment.
Section 8. That existing Section 9 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of
the 130th General Assembly is hereby repealed.
Section 9. Notwithstanding division (G)(2) of section
3301.0711 of the Revised Code, for the 2014-2015 school year only,
the Department of Education or an entity with which the Department
contracts for the scoring of the assessments prescribed by
divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) and (2) of section 3301.0710 of the
Revised Code shall send to each school district board a list of
the individual scores of all persons taking such an assessment for
that school year not later than December 31, 2015.
Section 10. For the 2014-2015 school year, for the state
report card prescribed by section 3302.03 of the Revised Code,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Revised Code, the
Department of Education shall calculate the performance index
score and the performance indicators met report card measures
based on the following assessments as follows:
(A) For students enrolled in any of grades nine through
twelve, the scores from the assessments administered under
division (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.
Any scores from assessments under division (B)(2) of section
3301.0712 of the Revised Code taken by students in any of grades
nine through twelve shall be reported only and shall not be
included in the calculation of a letter grade for a school
district or building's performance index or performance indicator
score.
(B) For students enrolled in grade eight or below, the scores
from the assessments administered under division (B)(2) of section
3301.0712 of the Revised Code.
Section 11. (A)(1) For the 2014-2015 school year, if a
student is enrolled in an appropriate course under either of the
dual enrollment programs described in former divisions (A)(1) or
(4) of section 3313.6013 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior
to September 17, 2014, in the area of physical science or biology,
American history, or American government, that student shall not
be required to take the physical science or biology, American
history, or American government end-of-course examination,
whichever is applicable, prescribed under division (B)(2) of
section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code. Instead, that student's
final course grade shall be used in lieu of the applicable
end-of-course examination prescribed under that section.
(2) For the 2014-2015 school year, if a student is enrolled
in an appropriate course under the dual enrollment program
described in former division (A)(3) of section 3313.6013 of the
Revised Code, as it existed prior to September 17, 2014, in the
area of physical science or biology, American history, or American
government, that student shall either:
(a) Take the applicable examination under that dual
enrollment program in lieu of the physical science or biology,
American history, or American government end-of-course
examination, whichever is applicable, prescribed under division
(B)(2) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code;
(b) Not be required to take the physical science or biology,
American history, or American government end-of-course
examination, whichever is applicable, prescribed under division
(B)(2) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code. Instead, that
student's final course grade shall be used in lieu of the
applicable end-of-course examination prescribed under that
section.
Divisions (A)(1) and (A)(2)(b) of this section shall apply
only to courses for which students receive transcripted credit, as
defined in division (U) of section 3365.01 of the Revised Code.
Neither division shall apply to remedial or developmental courses.
(B) For purposes of this section:
(1) The State Board of Education shall specify the score
levels for each examination required under this section for
purposes of calculating the minimum cumulative performance score
that demonstrates the level of academic achievement necessary to
earn a high school diploma.
(2) The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the
Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents jointly shall adopt
guidelines for purposes of calculating the minimum final course
grade that demonstrates the level of academic achievement
necessary to earn a high school diploma.
Section 12. Notwithstanding section 3302.03 of the Revised
Code, the Department of Education shall issue grades as described
in division (E) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code for each of
the performance measures prescribed in division (C)(1) of that
section for the 2014-2015 school year not later than January 15,
2016.
Section 13. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
section 3302.035 of the Revised Code, the Department of Education
shall issue the reports required under that section on the
performance measures for a school district's or school's students
with disabilities subgroup, using data from the 2014-2015 school
year, not later than January 15, 2016.
For each school year thereafter, the Department shall issue
those reports on the first day of October as required under that
section.
Section 14. Not later than November 1, 2015, the State Board
of Education shall make a recommendation on whether or not to
extend by one year the safe harbor provisions prescribed by
section 3302.036 of the Revised Code and Section 13 of Am. Sub.
H.B. 487 of the 130th General Assembly.
Section 15. Notwithstanding section 3302.21 of the Revised
Code, for the 2014-2015 school year only, the Department of
Education shall not rank school districts, community schools, and
STEM schools according to the performance measures prescribed in
divisions (A)(1), (2), and (5) of that section. However, the
Department shall rank districts and schools according to the
measures prescribed in divisions (A)(3) and (4) of that section
for the 2014-2015 school year not later than January 15, 2016."
Section 16. Notwithstanding section 3302.22 of the Revised
Code, the State Board of Education may adopt a resolution excusing
the Department of Education from determining the top ten per cent
of schools for the Governor's Effective and Efficient Schools
Recognition Program under section 3302.22 of the Revised Code for
the 2014-2015 school year.
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